Nucleic Acids Research, 1983, Vol. 11, No. 10 3155-3168
© 1983
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Three helical domains from a protein binding site in the SS RNA-protein complex from eukaryotic ribosomes
Department of Botany and Genetics, University of Guelph Guelph, Canada N1G 2W1
Received February 17, 1983. Revised April 19, 1983. Accepted April 19, 1983.
A ribosomal protein binding site in the eukaryotic 5S rRNA has been delineated by examining the effect of sequence variation and nucleotide modification on the RNA's ability to exchange into the EDTA-released, yeast ribosomal 5S RNA-protein complex. 5S RNAs of divergent sequence from a variety of eukaryotic origins could be readily exchanged into the yeast complex but RNA from bacterial origins was rejected. Nucleotide modifications in any of three analogous helical regions in eukaryotic 5S RNAs of differing origin reduced the ability of this RNA molecule to form homologous or heterologous RNA-protein complexes. Because sequence comparisons did not indicate common nucleotide sequences in the interacting helical regions, a model is suggested in which the eukaryotic 5S RNA binding protein does not simply recognize specific nucleotide sequences but interacts with three strategically oriented helical domains or functional groups within these domains. Two of the domains bear a limited sequence homology with each other and contain an unpaired nucleotide or ldquo;bulge" similar to that recently reported for one of the 5S RNA binding proteins in Escherichia coli (Peattie, D.A., Douthwaite, S., Garrett, R.A. and Noller, H.F. (1981) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 78, 7331-7335). The results further indicate that the single ribosomal protein of eukaryotic 5S RNA-protein complexes interacts with the same region of the 5S rRNA molecule as do the multiple protein components in complexes of prokaryotic origin
*Present address: Institut de Chimie Biologique, Faculteè de meèdecine de Strasbourg, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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