A correlation between N2-dimethylguanosine presence and alternate tRNA conformers
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A correlation between N2-dimethylguanosine presence and alternate tRNA conformers
Abstract
Even though the evolutionary conservation of the cloverleaf model is strongly suggestive of powerful constraints on the secondary structure of functional tRNAs, some mitochondrial tRNAs cannot be folded into this form. From the optimal base pairing pattern of these recalcitrant tRNAs, structural correlations between the length of the anticodon stem and the lengths of connector regions between the two helical domains, formed by the coaxial stacking of the anticodon and D-stems and the acceptor and T-stems, have been derived and used to scan the tRNA and tRNA gene database. We show here that some cytosolic tRNA gene sequences that are compatible with the cloverleaf model can also be folded into patterns proposed for the unusual mitochondrial tRNAs. Furthermore, the ability to be folded into these atypical structures correlates in the mature RNA sequences with the presence of dimethylguanosine, whose role may be to prevent the unusual mitochondrial tRNA pattern folding.
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