Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on March 1, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(6):1868-1884; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm066
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, No. 6 1868-1884
© 2007 The Author(s)
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An improved definition of the RNA-binding specificity of SECIS-binding protein 2, an essential component of the selenocysteine incorporation machinery
1Laboratoire de Maturation des ARN et Enzymologie Moléculaire – UMR 7567 CNRS-UHP, Nancy Université, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques – BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France and 2Architecture et Réactivité de l'arN – CNRS-Université Louis Pasteur, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire 15 Rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
*To whom the correspondence should be addressed. Tel: 33 383684303; Fax: 33 383684307; Email: christiane.branlant{at}maem.uhp-nancy.fr
Received September 27, 2006. Revised January 20, 2007. Accepted January 22, 2007.
By binding to SECIS elements located in the 3'-UTR of selenoprotein mRNAs, the protein SBP2 plays a key role in the assembly of the selenocysteine incorporation machinery. SBP2 contains an L7Ae/L30 RNA-binding domain similar to that of protein 15.5K/Snu13p, which binds K-turn motifs with a 3-nt bulge loop closed by a tandem of G.A and A.G pairs. Here, by SELEX experiments, we demonstrate the capacity of SBP2 to bind such K-turn motifs with a protruding U residue. However, we show that conversion of the bulge loop into an internal loop reinforces SBP2 affinity and to a greater extent RNP stability. Opposite variations were found for Snu13p. Accordingly, footprinting assays revealed strong contacts of SBP2 with helices I and II and the 5'-strand of the internal loop, as opposed to the loose interaction of Snu13p. Our data also identifies new determinants for SBP2 binding which are located in helix II. Among the L7Ae/L30 family members, these determinants are unique to SBP2. Finally, in accordance with functional data on SECIS elements, the identity of residues at positions 2 and 3 in the loop influences SBP2 affinity. Altogether, the data provide a very precise definition of the SBP2 RNA specificity.
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