Author:
Lin Lina,Caton-Williams Julianne,Kaur Manindar,Patino Andres M.,Sheng Jia,Punetha Jaya,Huang Zhen
Abstract
Phosphoroselenoate RNA (PSe-RNA) is nuclease resistant and has great potentials in X-ray crystal structure and function studies of noncoding RNAs and protein–RNA interactions. In order to conveniently synthesize PSe-RNA via transcription, we have developed a one-pot synthetic method for the nucleoside 5′-(α-P-seleno)-triphosphates (NTPαSe) analogs without protecting any functionality of the ribonucleosides. The NTPαSe diastereomers have been purified, fully characterized, and incorporated into RNAs by T7 RNA polymerase. The transcribed RNAs are diastereomerically pure, and the Se-derivatized ribozymes are generally active. Furthermore, we have established an affinity purification strategy by using immobilized boronate to conveniently purify NTPαSe analogs. Though the affinity-purified NTPαSe analogs are diastereomeric mixtures, they can be directly used in transcription without a significant impact on the transcription efficiency. Moreover, we found that the PSe-nucleotide is stable during polyacrylamide gel purification, indicating that the PSe-RNAs can be purified straightforwardly for crystal structural and functional studies.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cited by
23 articles.
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