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. 1980 Nov 11;8(21):5129–5141. doi: 10.1093/nar/8.21.5129

Mechanism of RNA-protein interactions in tobacco mosaic virus: analysis of the pH stability of virus protein complexes with synthetic polynucleotides.

R K Ledneva, T P Lanina, G V Terganova, A A Bogdanov
PMCID: PMC324284  PMID: 7443534

Abstract

TMV-like RNP complexes were reconstituted from TMV protein and synthetic polynucleotides. Analysis of the pH stability of RNP with polynucleotides containing U, G, or their analogues reveals a correlation between the stability of their structure and the pK values of the bases, and indicates that the -NH-CO-groups of U and G are involved in hydrogen bonding with protein. It is suggested that TMV protein has two U- and one G-specific binding sites which, according to the phase position of the protein subunits relative to the origin of TMV assembly (D. Zimmern (1977), Cell 11, 463) are likely to be organized as UGU. The binding of the A and C residues of RNA with TMV protein is nonspecific. TMV protein groups with pK 6.3, 7.5 and 9.7 were found to be essential in the protein-protein interactions in RNP. A group of the protein with pK 8.2 is also involved in RNP stabilization. Both protein-protein interactions and interactions of protein with RNA phosphate groups were shown to be mediated by a conformational change in the protein induced by base binding. The effect of bases on both types of interactions changes in the order G approximately equal to much greater than A, and incorporation of C in RNP proceeds in a compulsory way at the expense of interaction of the neighbouring nucleotide residues in polynucleotides with protein. The data obtained are used to discuss the principles of the cooperativity of the interactions between TMV components and the mechanism of initiation and elongation in TMV self-assembly.

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