NMR resonance assignments of an engineered neomycin-sensing riboswitch RNA bound to ribostamycin and tobramycin

Biomol NMR Assign. 2010 Apr;4(1):115-8. doi: 10.1007/s12104-010-9223-z. Epub 2010 Mar 21.

Abstract

The neomycin-sensing riboswitch is an engineered riboswitch developed to regulate gene expression in vivo in the lower eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae upon binding to neomycin B. With a size of only 27nt it is the smallest functional riboswitch element identified so far. It binds not only neomycin B but also related aminoglycosides of the 2'-deoxystreptamine class with high affinity. The regulatory activity, however, strongly depends on the identity of the aminoglycoside. As a prerequisite for the structure determination of riboswitch-ligand complexes we report here the (1)H, (15)N, (13)C and partial (31)P chemical shift assignments for the minimal functional 27nt neomycin sensing riboswitch RNA in complex with the 4,5-linked neomycin analog ribostamycin and the 4,6-linked aminoglycoside tobramycin.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbon Isotopes / chemistry
  • Hydrogen / chemistry
  • Nitrogen Isotopes / chemistry
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Phosphorus Isotopes / chemistry
  • Protein Engineering
  • RNA, Fungal / chemistry*
  • RNA, Fungal / metabolism
  • RNA, Messenger / chemistry*
  • RNA, Messenger / metabolism
  • Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic Acid*
  • Ribostamycin / chemistry*
  • Ribostamycin / metabolism
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Tobramycin / chemistry*
  • Tobramycin / metabolism

Substances

  • Carbon Isotopes
  • Nitrogen Isotopes
  • Phosphorus Isotopes
  • RNA, Fungal
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic Acid
  • Ribostamycin
  • Hydrogen
  • Tobramycin