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A Nanostructure Made of a Bacterial Noncoding RNA

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Natural RNAs, unlike many proteins, have never been reported to form extended nanostructures, despite their wide variety of cellular functions. This is all the more striking, as synthetic DNA and RNA forming large nanostructures have long been successfully designed. Here, we show that DsrA, a 87-nt noncoding RNA of Escherishia coli, self-assembles into a hierarchy of nanostructures through antisense interactions of three contiguous self-complementary regions. Yet, the extended nanostructures, observed using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and fluorescence-microscopy, are easily disrupted into >100 nm long helical bundles of DsrA filaments, including hundreds of DsrA monomers, and are surprisingly resistant to heat and urea denaturation. Molecular modeling demonstrates that this structural switch of DsrA nanostructures into filament bundles results from the relaxation of stored torsional constraints and suggests possible implications for DsrA regulatory function.
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hal-01239348 , version 1 (07-12-2015)

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Bastien Cayrol, Claude Nogues, Alexandre Dawid, Irit Sagi, Pascal Silberzan, et al.. A Nanostructure Made of a Bacterial Noncoding RNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131 (47), pp.17270-6. ⟨10.1021/ja906076e⟩. ⟨hal-01239348⟩
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