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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 36, 22513-22519, 12, 1990

Metal ion and substrate structure dependence of the processing of tRNA precursors by RNase P and M1 RNA

CK Surratt, BJ Carter, RC Payne and SM Hecht
Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22901.

A synthetic tRNA precursor analog containing the structural elements of Escherichia coli tRNA(Phe) was characterized as a substrate for E. coli ribonuclease P and for M1 RNA, the catalytic RNA subunit. Processing of the synthetic precursor exhibited a Mg2+ dependence quite similar to that of natural tRNA precursors such as E. coli tRNA(Tyr) precursor. It was found that Sr2+, Ca2+, and Ba2+ ions promoted processing of the dimeric precursor at Mg2+ concentrations otherwise insufficient to support processing; very similar behavior was noted for E. coli tRNA(Tyr). As noted previously for natural tRNA precursors, the absence of the 3'-terminal CA sequence in the synthetic precursor diminished the facility of processing of this substrate by RNase P and M1 RNA. A study of the Mg2+ dependence of processing of the synthetic tRNA dimeric substrate radiolabeled between C75 and A76 provided unequivocal evidence for an alteration in the actual site of processing by E. coli RNase P as a function of Mg2+ concentration. This property was subsequently demonstrated to obtain (Carter, B. J., Vold, B.S., and Hecht, S. M. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 7100-7103) for a mutant Bacillus subtilis tRNAHis precursor containing a potential A-C base pair at the end of the acceptor stem.
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