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Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 25, Issue 8 1605-1610, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press

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Detailed analysis of base preferences at the cleavage site of a trans- acting HDV ribozyme: a mutation that changes cleavage site specificity

F Nishikawa, H Fauzi and S Nishikawa
1 National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, AIST, MITI, 1- 1 Higashi, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305, Japan. Japan.

In our previous attempt at in vitro selection of a trans - acting human hepatitis delta virus (HDV) ribozyme, we found that one of the variants, G10-68-725G, cleaved a 13 nt substrate, HDVS1, at two sites [Nishikawa,F., Kawakami,J., Chiba,A., Shirai,M., Kumar,P.K.R. and Nishikawa,S. (1996) Eur. J. Biochem., 237, 712-718]. One site was the normal cleavage site and the other site was shifted 1 nt toward the 3'- end. To clarify the interactions between nucleotides around the cleavage site of the trans -acting HDV ribozyme, we analyzed the efficiency of the reaction for every possible base pair between the substrate and the ribozyme at positions -1 (-1N:726N) and +1 (+1N:725N) relative to the cleavage site using the genomic HDV ribozyme, TdS4(Xho), and derivatives of the most active variant, G10-68. These mutagenesis analyses revealed that the +1 base of the substrate affects the structure of the catalytic core in the complex with G10-68-725G, substrate and divalent metal ions, and it shifts the cleavage site. In a comparison with other variants of the trans -acting HDV ribozyme, we found that this cleavage site shift occurred only with G10-68-725G.
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