Monovalent metal ion binding promotes the first transesterification reaction in the spliceosome.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

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Date de publication:
20 Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 20 06 2023
accepted: 01 12 2023
medline: 21 12 2023
pubmed: 21 12 2023
entrez: 20 12 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Cleavage and formation of phosphodiester bonds in nucleic acids is accomplished by large cellular machineries composed of both protein and RNA. Long thought to rely on a two-metal-ion mechanism for catalysis, structure comparisons revealed many contain highly spatially conserved second-shell monovalent cations, whose precise function remains elusive. A recent high-resolution structure of the spliceosome, essential for pre-mRNA splicing in eukaryotes, revealed a potassium ion in the active site. Here, we employ biased quantum mechanics/ molecular mechanics molecular dynamics to elucidate the function of this monovalent ion in splicing. We discover that the K

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pubmed: 38123540
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44174-2
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-44174-2
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eng

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Organisme : Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Italian Association for Cancer Research)
ID : AIRC IG 24514
Organisme : Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Italian Association for Cancer Research)
ID : Giovanni Fraviga
Organisme : Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS (Slovenian Research Agency)
ID : P1-0017, J1-3019
Organisme : Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS (Slovenian Research Agency)
ID : P1-0017
Organisme : Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS (Slovenian Research Agency)
ID : J1-3019
Organisme : Wellcome Trust (Wellcome)
ID : 220212/Z/20/Z
Organisme : Wellcome Trust (Wellcome)
ID : 220212/Z/20/Z
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : 950278

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Auteurs

Jana Aupič (J)

National Research Council of Italy (CNR)-Materials Foundry (IOM) c/o International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.

Jure Borišek (J)

Theory department, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Sebastian M Fica (SM)

Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Wojciech P Galej (WP)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble, France.

Alessandra Magistrato (A)

National Research Council of Italy (CNR)-Materials Foundry (IOM) c/o International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. alessandra.magistrato@sissa.it.

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