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  • Title: The effect of pseudouridine and pH on the structure and dynamics of the anticodon stem-loop of tRNA(Lys,3).
    Author: Durant PC, Davis DR.
    Journal: Nucleic Acids Symp Ser; 1997; (36):56-7. PubMed ID: 9478205.
    Abstract:
    The anticodon stem-loop hairpin of tRNA(Lys,3) was synthesized and the solution structure determined by NMR spectroscopy. The hairpin is thermodynamically stabilized by pseudouridine as determined by UV Tm measurements, and the local loop structure is stabilized with base-stacking of the nucleosides in the anticodon loop 5' of the psi 39 nucleoside modification. The tRNA(Lys,3) hairpin also contains an A(+)-C base-pair that effectively reduces the size of the normal 7 nucleotide anticodon loop to 5 nucleotides and induces a change in the loop backbone conformation. The stabilizing effects of the A(+)-C base-pair and pseudouridine are only partially additive, suggesting that the conformational changes caused by each modification are not completely compatible. The structure of the anticodon loop is distinctly different from that seen for other tRNAs exemplified by tRNA(Phe), suggesting that the full complement of modified nucleosides present in tRNA(Lys,3) should significantly change the structure compared to the unmodified tRNA anticodon loop. The conformation of the loop has important implications for the role of nucleoside modification in codon-anticodon recognition and for utilization of tRNA(Lys,3) by HIV-1 as the natural reverse transcriptase primer.
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