Inactivation of Tetrahymena rRNA self-splicing byc/s-platin proceeds through dissociable complexes

Cech Tetrahymena pre - rRNA . Determinants of the 3 ' splice site for self - splicing of the

Identification of phosphate groups important to self-splicing of the Tetrahymena rRNA intron as determined by phosphorothioate substitution.

The group I intron from the rRNA precursor of Tetrahymena undergoes self-splicing. The intron RNA catalyst contains about 400 phosphate groups. Their role in catalysis has been investigated using phosphorothioate substituted RNA. In such RNA one of the peripheral oxygens of the phosphodiesters is replaced with sulfur. Incorporation of adenosine 5' phosphorothioate in either the 5' or 3' half of...

Site-directed mutagenesis of core sequence elements 9R', 9L, 9R, and 2 in self-splicing Tetrahymena pre-rRNA.

The intron within the Tetrahymena thermophila nuclear large rRNA precursor is the best studied example of group I self-splicing introns. In this paper, we examine the structural and functional roles of four internal sequence elements which are characteristic of group I introns in the RNA-catalyzed processing reactions. Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to generate mutations in seque...

Thermodynamic Parameters of Cis-Platin and Trans-Platin Complexes with Guanine in Water, A DFT Study

The binding energy and Thermodynamic Parameters of cis- Platinum Di Ammino Chlorine (cis-[Pt(NH3)2Cl]+) and trans- Platinum Di Ammino Chlorine (trans- [Pt(NH3)2Cl]+) complexes withGuanine has been studied by density functional theory (DFT) calculations in water. The bindingenergies (Ebin) of cis- and trans-[Pt(NH3)2ClG]+ are calculated to be 79.38 kcal/mol and 74.98kcal/mol, respectively. The b...

Integration of the Tetrahymena group I intron into bacterial rRNA by reverse splicing in vivo.

Horizontal gene transfer is thought to contribute to the wide distribution of group I introns among organisms. Integration of an intron into foreign RNA or DNA by reverse self-splicing, followed by reverse transcription and recombination, could lead to its transposition. Reverse self-splicing of group I introns has been demonstrated in vitro, but not in vivo. Here we report RNA-dependent integr...