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Figure 5: DSSR pinpoints a linchpin-like U64–A85 pair that is shared by a four-way and a five-way junction loop in the S-adenosyl methionine I riboswitch (PDB id: 2gis (45)). (A) DSSR identifies two junction loops (right): a [4,0,3,0] four-way junction loop (red) and a [1,0,2,0,0] five-way junction loop (blue), which share a common side, i.e., the isolated U64–A85 pair (left). (B) The linear secondary structure diagram, annotated with DSSR-derived dot-bracket notation, depicts the pathways of the two junction loops. The four-way loop runs from C8 (*), follows the red arrows to the right, and returns along the outer G86→C8 arc. The five-way loop starts at G23 (*), moves to the right following the blue arrows along two arcs (C25→G68 and C69→G82), and returns to the start along three arcs (A85→U64, C65→G28, C29→G23). Note that the shared U64–A85 arc is traversed twice, from left to right along the four-way junction loop, and right to left along the five-way junction loop. (C) The U64–A85 pair is stabilized by base-stacking interactions in a way strikingly similar to the G2–C74 linchpin pair in the viral tRNA mimic (see Figure 3), and may also be regarded as a ‘linchpin’. These two images take advantage of unique visualization features within 3DNA/DSSR, including the capability to orient different molecules in a common frame (here, the frames of the linchpin pairs with the minor-groove edges facing the viewer) and to represent bases as color-coded rectangular blocks.
Funded by the NIH R24GM153869 grant on X3DNA-DSSR, an NIGMS National Resource for Structural Bioinformatics of Nucleic Acids
Created and maintained by Dr. Xiang-Jun Lu, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University