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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 49, 期 20, 页码 11438-11446出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab923
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- W.M. Keck Foundation
- National Science Foundation [CHE: 2001434, MCB: 1946312]
- NSF
Transliteration refers to the retention of a nucleic acid molecule's phenotype when its genotype is written in a different genetic language. This study extended the concept to nucleic acid enzymes, showing that they retain catalytic activity when prepared in different forms, indicating that FANA and TNA enzymes can adopt similarly folded tertiary structures. These findings offer new insights into the sequence-structure-function paradigm governing the folding of biopolymers.
Functional nucleic acids lose activity when their sequence is prepared in the backbone architecture of a different genetic polymer. The only known exception to this rule is a subset of aptamers whose binding mechanism involves G-quadruplex formation. We refer to such examples as transliteration-a synthetic biology concept describing cases in which the phenotype of a nucleic acid molecule is retained when the genotype is written in a different genetic language. Here, we extend the concept of transliteration to include nucleic acid enzymes (XNAzymes) that mediate site-specific cleavage of an RNA substrate. We show that an in vitro selected 2'-fluoroarabino nucleic acid (FANA) enzyme retains catalytic activity when its sequence is prepared as (y-L-threofuranosyl nucleic acid (TNA), and vice versa, a TNA enzyme that remains functional when its sequence is prepared as FANA. Structure probing with DMS supports the hypothesis that FANA and TNA enzymes having the same primary sequence can adopt similarly folded tertiary structures. These findings provide new insight into the sequence-structure-function paradigm governing biopolymer folding.
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