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Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 7 2825-2839
© 1988

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The E.coli 16S rRNA binding site of ribosomal protein S15: higher-order structure in the absence and in the presence of the protein

Marylène Mougel, Claude Philippe, Jean-Pierre Ebel, Bernard Ehresmann and Chantal Ehresmann*

Laboratoire de Biochimie, Institute de Biologie Molèculaire et Cellulaire de CNRS 15 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France

*To whom corresponence should be addressed

Received January 12, 1988. Revised March 1, 1988. Accepted March 1, 1988.

We have investigated in detail the secondary and tertiary structures of E. coli 16S rRNA binding site of protein S15 using a variety of enzymatic and chemical probes. RNase T1 and nuclease S1 were used to probe unpaired nucleotides and RNase V1 to monitor base-paired or stacked nucleotides. Bases were probed with dimethylsulfatc (at A(N-1), C(N-3) and G(N-7)), with 1-cyclohexyl-3 (2-(1-methylmorpholino)-ethyl)-carbodiimide-p-toluenesulfonate (at U(N-3) and G(N-1)) and with diethylpyrocarbonate (at A(N-7)). The RNA region corresponding to nucleotides 652 to 753 was tested within: (1) the complete 16S rRNA molecule; (2) a 16S rRNA fragment corresponding to nucleotides 578 to 756 obtained by transcription in vitro; (3) the S15-l6S rRNA complex; (4) the S15-fragment complex. Cleavage and modification sites were detected by primer extension with reverse transcriptase. Our results show that: (1) The synthetized fragment folds into the same overall secondary structure as in the complete 16S rRNA, with the exception of the large asymmetrical internal loop (nucleotides 673-676/714-733) which is fully accessible in the fragment while it appears conformationally heterogeneous in the 16S rRNA; (2) the reactivity patterns of the S15-16S rRNA and S 15-fragment complexes are identical; (3) the protein protects defined RNA regions, located in the large interior loop and in the 3'-end strand of helix [655-672]-[734-751]; (4) the protein also causes enhanced chemical reactivity and enzyme accessibility interpreted as resulting from a local conformational rearrangement, induced by S15 binding.


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