Procedure for C2 deuteration of nucleic acids and determination of Aχ31 psedouridine conformation by nuclear overhausere effect in yeast tRNAPhe
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- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 10 (24) , 8341-8349
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/10.24.8341
Abstract
Nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) combined with semispecific deuteration provides a general strategy for identification of exchangeable protons in nucleic base pairs, and has been extended to NOEs involving purine C2 protons in tRNA. Deuterated tri-ethyl orthoformate was condensed with 5(4)-aminoimidazole 4(5)-carboxamide to yield C2 deuterated hypoxanthine. C2 deuterated hypoxanthine was fed to a purine requiring mutant of yeast and C2 deuterated tRNAPhe was isolated. This C2 deuterated tRNAPhe was used to identify Aχ31 and U8-A14. Aχ31 was found to be bonded through NlH. The utility of C2 deuteration in nucleic acid NMR is thus demonstrated.Keywords
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