The interaction between the iron-responsive element binding protein and its cognate RNA is highly dependent upon both RNA sequence and structure. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • To assess the influence of RNA sequence/structure on the interaction RNAs with the iron-responsive element binding protein (IRE-BP), twenty eight altered RNAs were tested as competitors for an RNA corresponding to the ferritin H chain IRE. All changes in the loop of the predicted IRE hairpin and in the unpaired cytosine residue characteristically found in IRE stems significantly decreased the apparent affinity of the RNA for the IRE-BP. Similarly, alteration in the spacing and/or orientation of the loop and the unpaired cytosine of the stem by either increasing or decreasing the number of base pairs separating them significantly reduced efficacy as a competitor. It is inferred that the IRE-BP forms multiple contacts with its cognate RNA, and that these contacts, acting in concert, provide the basis for the high affinity of this interaction.

publication date

  • September 25, 1993

Research

keywords

  • Ferritins
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Iron
  • RNA, Messenger
  • RNA-Binding Proteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC311201

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027439334

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1093/nar/21.19.4627

PubMed ID

  • 8233801

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 21

issue

  • 19