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. 1989 Sep 25;17(18):7241–7252. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.18.7241

19F NMR of 5-fluorouracil-substituted transfer RNA transcribed in vitro: resonance assignment of fluorouracil-guanine base pairs.

W C Chu 1, J Horowitz 1
PMCID: PMC334804  PMID: 2798092

Abstract

5-Fluorouracil is readily incorporated into active tRNA(Val) transcribed in vitro from a recombinant phagemid containing a synthetic E. coli tRNA(Val) gene. This tRNA has the expected sequence and a secondary and tertiary structure resembling that of native 5-fluorouracil-substituted tRNA(Val), as judged by 19F NMR spectroscopy. To assign resonances in the 19F spectrum, mutant phagemids were constructed having base changes in the tRNA gene. Replacement of fluorouracil in the T-stem with cytosine, converting a FU-G to a C-G base pair, results in the loss of one downfield peak in the 19F NMR spectrum of the mutant tRNA(Val). The spectra of other mutant tRNAs having guanine for adenine substitutions that convert FU-A to FU-G base pairs all have one resonance shifted 4.5 to 5 ppm downfield. These results allow assignment of several 19F resonances and demonstrate that the chemical shift of the 19F signal from base-paired 5-fluorouracil differs considerably between Watson-Crick and wobble geometry.

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