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Nucleic Acids Research, 1989, Vol. 17, No. 18 7241-7252
© 1989

CHEMISTRY

19F NMR of 5-fluorouracil-substituted transfer RNA transcribed in vitro: resonance assignment of fluorouracil-guanine base pairs

Wen-Chy Chu and Jack Horowitz*

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received June 26, 1989. Revised August 10, 1989. Accepted August 10, 1989.

5-Fluorouracil is readily incorporated into active tRNAVal transcribed in vitro from a recombinant phagemid containing a synthetic E. coli tRNAVal gene. This tRNA has the expected sequence and a secondary and tertiary structure resembling that of native 5-fluorouracil-substituted tRNAVal, as judged by 19F NMR spectroscopy. To assign resonances in the 19F spectrum, mutant phagemids were constructed having base changes in the tRNA gene. Replacement of fluorouracil in the T-stem with cytosine, converting a FU-G to a C-G base pair, results in the loss of one downfield peak in the 19F NMR spectrum of the mutant tRNAVal. The spectra of other mutant tRNAs having guanine for adenine substitutions that convert FU-A to FU-G base pairs all have one resonance shifted 4.5 to 5 ppm downfield. These results allow assignment of several 19F resonances and demonstrate that the chemical shift of the 19F signal from base-paired 5-fluorouracil differs considerably between Watson-Crick and wobble geometry


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