Enhancement of the cleavage rates of DNA-armed hammerhead ribozymes by various divalent metal ions
- 11 December 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 21 (24) , 5656-5660
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/21.24.5656
Abstract
In order to characterize structure-function relationships, the kinetic behavior of chimeric RNA/DNA ribozyme was compared with that of all RNA ribozyme. Determined k cat , values were proven to represent the chemical-cleavage step and not the productdissociation step. In agreement with the finding by Dahm and Uhlenbeck [Biochemistry 30, 9464-9469 (1991)], various metal ions, including Co 2* and Ca 2* with the ionic radius of 0.65 and 1.0 A, respectively, could support hammerhead cleavage for both types of ribozyme. Measurements of kinetic parameters in the presence of various divalent metal ions revealed that DNA arms always enhanced k cat values. Chemicalprobing data using dimethylsulfate indicated that the catalytic-loop structures of all-RNA and chimeric ribozymes were nearly identical with the exception of enhanced termination of primer extension reactions at C3 in the case of the chimeric ribozyme. These observations and others demonstrate that DNA substitution in non-catalytic-loop regions increases chemical-cleavage activity, possibly with an accompanying very subtle change in the structure.Keywords
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