FIGURE 3.
(A) The 5′ side of the PAS oligo was constructed from the vRNA PAS sequence and the 3′ side from the tRNA anti-PAS sequence. The stem is capped by a UUCG tetraloop on one end and a GC base pair on the other. (B) Assigning the homonuclear NOESY spectrum of the PAS oligo shows that it folds into a single stem–loop structure. (C) Overlaying the PAS oligo NOESY spectrum (red) onto the 77-nt-vRNA/tRNA NOESY spectrum (black) shows that the 77-nt-vRNA/tRNA complex contains a PAS/anti-PAS secondary structural interaction. (D) NOESY data show that the vRNA PAS sequence displaces the tRNA 5′ end to base pair with the tRNA anti-PAS sequence.