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通过模拟非反应性RNA核苷酸的切割来理解在线探测实验

Understanding In-line Probing Experiments by Modeling Cleavage of Non-reactive RNA Nucleotides

Vojtěch Mlýnský, Giovanni Bussi

摘要:

核糖核酸(RNA)参与细胞中的许多调节和催化过程。任何RNA分子的功能都与其结构密切相关。在线探测实验为各种RNA提供了有价值的结构数据集,并用于表征核糖开关的构象变化。然而,尚未研究导致未配对核苷酸中差异反应性的结构决定因素。在这项工作中,我们使用了理论方法的组合,即,经典的分子动力学模拟,多尺度量子力学/分子力学计算,和增强的采样技术,以计算和解释在几个RNA基序,包括最重要的GNRA和UNCG四环家族的成员的个别残基的差异反应性。需要在多ns时间尺度上进行模拟,以收敛相关的自由能景观。uGAAAg和cUUCGg四环和双螺旋的结果与来自在线探测实验的可用数据进行比较,并显示所引入的技术能够基于它们对磷酸二酯骨架裂解的结构倾向来区分uGAAAg四环的核苷酸。对于cUUCGg四环,需要更高级的从头计算。这项研究是第一次尝试计算分类化学探测实验,并铺平了道路的三级结构的基础上测得的反应性的非反应性核苷酸的识别。

英文摘要:

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is involved in many regulatory and catalytic processes in the cell. The function of any RNA molecule is intimately related with its structure. In-line probing experiments provide valuable structural datasets for a variety of RNAs and are used to characterize conformational changes in riboswitches. However, the structural determinants that lead to differential reactivities in unpaired nucleotides have not been investigated yet. In this work we used a combination of theoretical approaches, i.e., classical molecular dynamics simulations, multiscale quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations, and enhanced sampling techniques in order to compute and interpret the differential reactivity of individual residues in several RNA motifs including members of the most important GNRA and UNCG tetraloop families. Simulations on the multi ns timescale are required to converge the related free-energy landscapes. The results for uGAAAg and cUUCGg tetraloops and double helices are compared with available data from in-line probing experiments and show that the introduced technique is able to distinguish between nucleotides of the uGAAAg tetraloop based on their structural predispositions towards phosphodiester backbone cleavage. For the cUUCGg tetraloop, more advanced ab initio calculations would be required. This study is the first attempt to computationally classify chemical probing experiments and paves the way for an identification of tertiary structures based on the measured reactivity of non-reactive nucleotides.

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