Summary information and primary citation
- PDB-id
- 5uza; DSSR-derived features in text and JSON formats
- Class
- RNA
- Method
- X-ray (2.22 Å)
- Summary
- Adenine riboswitch aptamer domain labelled with iodo-uridine by position-selective labelling of RNA (plor)
- Reference
- Liu Y, Holmstrom E, Yu P, Tan K, Zuo X, Nesbitt DJ, Sousa R, Stagno JR, Wang YX (2018): "Incorporation of isotopic, fluorescent, and heavy-atom-modified nucleotides into RNAs by position-selective labeling of RNA." Nat Protoc, 13, 987-1005. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2018.002.
- Abstract
- Site-specific incorporation of labeled nucleotides is an extremely useful synthetic tool for many structural studies (e.g., NMR, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), and X-ray crystallography) of RNA. However, specific-position-labeled RNAs >60 nt are not commercially available on a milligram scale. Position-selective labeling of RNA (PLOR) has been applied to prepare large RNAs labeled at desired positions, and all the required reagents are commercially available. Here, we present a step-by-step protocol for the solid-liquid hybrid phase method PLOR to synthesize 71-nt RNA samples with three different modification applications, containing (i) a 13C15N-labeled segment; (ii) discrete residues modified with Cy3, Cy5, or biotin; or (iii) two iodo-U residues. The flexible procedure enables a wide range of downstream biophysical analyses using precisely localized functionalized nucleotides. All three RNAs were obtained in <2 d, excluding time for preparing reagents and optimizing experimental conditions. With optimization, the protocol can be applied to other RNAs with various labeling schemes, such as ligation of segmentally labeled fragments.