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dc.contributor.authorSt-Pierre, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorShaw, Euan Stuart
dc.contributor.authorJacques, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorDalgarno, Paul Allan
dc.contributor.authorPerez Gonzalez, Cibran
dc.contributor.authorPicard-Jean, Frédéric
dc.contributor.authorPenedo , Carlos
dc.contributor.authorLafontaine, Daniel A
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-10T14:30:10Z
dc.date.available2021-05-10T14:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-08
dc.identifier.citationSt-Pierre , P , Shaw , E S , Jacques , S , Dalgarno , P A , Perez Gonzalez , C , Picard-Jean , F , Penedo , C & Lafontaine , D A 2021 , ' A structural intermediate pre-organizes the add adenine riboswitch for ligand recognition ' , Nucleic Acids Research , vol. Advance Article . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab307en
dc.identifier.issn0305-1048
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 273818250
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1f0664d5-6b42-4a3f-8632-dded5f8f9d70
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-5807-5385/work/93894006
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000671549500035
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85108124255
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23144
dc.descriptionFunding: This work was supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). P.S.P. was supported through a Doctoral fellowship from NSERC and D.A.L was supported through a Fonds de Recherche Santé Québec Senior scholarship. C. Perez-Gonzalez and E. Shaw thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and The University of St Andrews for PhD studentships.en
dc.description.abstractRiboswitches are RNA sequences that regulate gene expression by undergoing structural changes upon the specific binding of cellular metabolites. Crystal structures of purine-sensing riboswitches have revealed an intricate network of interactions surrounding the ligand in the bound complex. The mechanistic details about how the aptamer folding pathway is involved in the formation of the metabolite binding site have been previously shown to be highly important for the riboswitch regulatory activity. Here, a combination of single-molecule FRET and SHAPE assays have been used to characterize the folding pathway of the adenine riboswitch from Vibrio vulnificus. Experimental evidences suggest a folding process characterized by the presence of a structural intermediate involved in ligand recognition. This intermediate state acts as an open conformation to ensure ligand accessibility to the aptamer and folds into a structure nearly identical to the ligand-bound complex through a series of structural changes. This study demonstrates that the add riboswitch relies on the folding of a structural intermediate that preorganizes the aptamer global structure and the ligand binding site to allow efficient metabolite sensing and riboswitch genetic regulation.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNucleic Acids Researchen
dc.rightsCopyright © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQH426 Geneticsen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQH426en
dc.titleA structural intermediate pre-organizes the add adenine riboswitch for ligand recognitionen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biophotonicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complexen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab307
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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