A guanosine quadruplex and two stable hairpins flank a major cleavage site in insulin-like growth factor II mRNA
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A guanosine quadruplex and two stable hairpins flank a major cleavage site in insulin-like growth factor II mRNA. / Christiansen, Jan; Kofod, M; Nielsen, F C.
In: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 22, No. 25, 1994, p. 5709-16.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A guanosine quadruplex and two stable hairpins flank a major cleavage site in insulin-like growth factor II mRNA
AU - Christiansen, Jan
AU - Kofod, M
AU - Nielsen, F C
N1 - Keywords: Animals; Base Sequence; Guanine Nucleotides; Humans; Hydrogen Bonding; Hydrolysis; Insulin-Like Growth Factor II; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleic Acid Conformation; RNA, Messenger; Rats
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) mRNAs are cleaved by an endonucleolytic event in a conserved part of their 3' untranslated region that is predicted to exhibit a complex higher-order RNA structure. In the present study, we have examined the putative secondary structures of in vitro transcripts from the conserved part of human and rat mRNAs by enzymatic and chemical probing. The results show that the cleavage site is situated between two highly structured domains. The upstream domain consists of two large hairpins, whereas the downstream domain is guanosine-rich. The guanosine-rich domain adopts a compact unimolecular conformation in Na+ or K+ but not in Li+, and it completely arrests reverse transcription in K+ but only partially in Na+, indicating the presence of an intramolecular guanosine quadruplex. The flanking higher-order structures may ensure that the cleavage site is not sequestered in stable RNA structures, thus allowing interactions with RNA or proteins at posttranscriptional stages of IGF-II expression.
AB - Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) mRNAs are cleaved by an endonucleolytic event in a conserved part of their 3' untranslated region that is predicted to exhibit a complex higher-order RNA structure. In the present study, we have examined the putative secondary structures of in vitro transcripts from the conserved part of human and rat mRNAs by enzymatic and chemical probing. The results show that the cleavage site is situated between two highly structured domains. The upstream domain consists of two large hairpins, whereas the downstream domain is guanosine-rich. The guanosine-rich domain adopts a compact unimolecular conformation in Na+ or K+ but not in Li+, and it completely arrests reverse transcription in K+ but only partially in Na+, indicating the presence of an intramolecular guanosine quadruplex. The flanking higher-order structures may ensure that the cleavage site is not sequestered in stable RNA structures, thus allowing interactions with RNA or proteins at posttranscriptional stages of IGF-II expression.
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 7838726
VL - 22
SP - 5709
EP - 5716
JO - Nucleic Acids Research
JF - Nucleic Acids Research
SN - 0305-1048
IS - 25
ER -
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