TY - JOUR
T1 - Extra-structural elements in the RNA recognition motif in archaeal Pop5 play a crucial role in the activation of RNase P RNA from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3
AU - Hazeyama, Kohsuke
AU - Ishihara, Masato
AU - Ueda, Toshifumi
AU - Nishimoto, Etsuko
AU - Nakashima, Takashi
AU - Kakuta, Yoshimitsu
AU - Kimura, Makoto
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Prof. S. Yamashita (Kyushu University) and Dr. M. Teramoto (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at Durham in USA) for their useful suggestions. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (No. 22380062 to M.K.).
PY - 2013/11/1
Y1 - 2013/11/1
N2 - Ribonuclease P (RNase P) is a ribonucleoprotein complex essential for the processing of 5' leader sequences of precursor tRNAs (pre-tRNA). PhoPop5 is an archaeal homolog of human RNase P protein hPop5 involved in the activation of RNase P RNA (PhopRNA) in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii, probably by promoting RNA annealing (AN) and RNA strand displacement (SD). Although PhoPop5 folds into the RNA recognition motif (RRM), it is distinct from the typical RRM in that it has an insertion of α-helix (α2) between α1 and β2. Biochemical and structural data have shown that the dimerization of PhoPop5 through the loop between α1 and α2 is required for the activation of PhopRNA. In addition, PhoPop5 has additional helices (α4 and α5) at the C-terminus, which pack against one face of the β-sheet. In this study, we examined the contribution of the C-terminal helices to the activation of PhopRNA using mutation analyses. Reconstitution experiments and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based assays indicated that deletion of the C-terminal helices α4 and α5 significantly influenced on the pre-tRNA cleavage activity and abolished AN and SD activities, while that of α5 had little effect on these activities. Moreover, the FRET assay showed that deletion of the loop between α1 and α2 had no influence on the AN and SD activity. Further mutational analyses suggested that basic residues at α4 are involved in interaction with PhopRNA, while hydrophobic residues at α4 participate in interaction with hydrophobic residues at the β-sheet, thereby stabilizing an appropriate orientation of the helix α4. Together, these results indicate that extra-structural elements in the RRM in PhoPop5 play a crucial role in the activation of PhopRNA.
AB - Ribonuclease P (RNase P) is a ribonucleoprotein complex essential for the processing of 5' leader sequences of precursor tRNAs (pre-tRNA). PhoPop5 is an archaeal homolog of human RNase P protein hPop5 involved in the activation of RNase P RNA (PhopRNA) in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii, probably by promoting RNA annealing (AN) and RNA strand displacement (SD). Although PhoPop5 folds into the RNA recognition motif (RRM), it is distinct from the typical RRM in that it has an insertion of α-helix (α2) between α1 and β2. Biochemical and structural data have shown that the dimerization of PhoPop5 through the loop between α1 and α2 is required for the activation of PhopRNA. In addition, PhoPop5 has additional helices (α4 and α5) at the C-terminus, which pack against one face of the β-sheet. In this study, we examined the contribution of the C-terminal helices to the activation of PhopRNA using mutation analyses. Reconstitution experiments and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based assays indicated that deletion of the C-terminal helices α4 and α5 significantly influenced on the pre-tRNA cleavage activity and abolished AN and SD activities, while that of α5 had little effect on these activities. Moreover, the FRET assay showed that deletion of the loop between α1 and α2 had no influence on the AN and SD activity. Further mutational analyses suggested that basic residues at α4 are involved in interaction with PhopRNA, while hydrophobic residues at α4 participate in interaction with hydrophobic residues at the β-sheet, thereby stabilizing an appropriate orientation of the helix α4. Together, these results indicate that extra-structural elements in the RRM in PhoPop5 play a crucial role in the activation of PhopRNA.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.09.140
DO - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.09.140
M3 - Article
C2 - 24120499
AN - SCOPUS:84887120870
VL - 440
SP - 594
EP - 598
JO - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
JF - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
SN - 0006-291X
IS - 4
ER -