Structural basis for recognition of the tra mRNA precursor by the Sex-lethal protein

Noriko Handa, Osamu Nureki, Kazuki Kurimoto, Insil Kim, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Yoshiro Shimura, Yutaka Muto and Shigeyuki Yokoyama ()
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Noriko Handa: Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
Osamu Nureki: Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
Kazuki Kurimoto: Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
Insil Kim: Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Sakamoto: Faculty of Science, Kobe University
Yoshiro Shimura: Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Yutaka Muto: Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
Shigeyuki Yokoyama: Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo

Nature, 1999, vol. 398, issue 6728, 579-585

Abstract: Abstract The Sex-lethal (Sxl) protein of Drosophila melanogaster regulates alternative splicing of the transformer (tra) messenger RNA precursor by binding to the tra polypyrimidine tract during the sex-determination process. The crystal structure has now been determined at 2.6 Å resolution of the complex formed between two tandemly arranged RNA-binding domains of the Sxl protein and a 12-nucleotide, single-stranded RNA derived from the tra polypyrimidine tract. The two RNA-binding domains have their β-sheet platforms facing each other to form a V-shaped cleft. The RNA is characteristically extended and bound in this cleft, where the UGUUUUUUU sequence is specifically recognized by the protein. This structure offers the first insight, to our knowledge, into how a protein binds specifically to a cognate RNA without any intramolecular base-pairing.

Date: 1999
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