RNA substrate binding site in the catalytic core of the Tetrahymena ribozyme
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 358 (6382), 123-128
- https://doi.org/10.1038/358123a0
Abstract
In catalysis by group I introns, the helix (P1) containing the RNA cleavage site must be positioned next to the guanosine binding site. We have identified a conserved adenine in the catalytic core that contributes to the stability of this arrangement and propose that it accepts a hydrogen bond from a specific 2'-OH in P1. Such base-backbone tertiary interactions may be generally important to the organization of RNA tertiary structure.Keywords
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