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Structure and internal dynamics of short RNA duplexes determined by a combination of pulsed EPR methods and MD simulations

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Heinz,  Marcel       
Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Hummer,  Gerhard       
Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max Planck Society;
Institute of Biophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;

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Gauger, M., Heinz, M., Halbritter, A.-L.-J., Stelzl, L. S., Erlenbach, N., Hummer, G., et al. (2024). Structure and internal dynamics of short RNA duplexes determined by a combination of pulsed EPR methods and MD simulations. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English, 63: e202402498. doi:10.1002/anie.202402498.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-17A5-D
Abstract
We used EPR spectroscopy to characterize the structure of RNA duplexes and their internal twist, stretch and bending motions. We prepared eight 20 base-pair long RNA duplexes containing the rigid spin-label Çm, a cytidine analogue, at two positions and acquired orientation-selective PELDOR/DEER data. By using different frequency bands (X-, Q-, G-band), detailed information about the distance and orientation of the labels was obtained and provided insights into the global conformational dynamics of the RNA duplex. We used 19F Mims ENDOR experiments on three singly Çm and singly fluorine labeled RNA duplexes to determine the exact position of the Çm spin label in the helix. In a quantitative comparison to MD simulations of RNA with and without Çm spin labels, we found that state-of-the-art force fields with explicit parameterization of the spin label were able to describe the conformational ensemble present in our experiments. The MD simulations further confirmed that the Çm spin labels are excellent mimics of cytidine inducing only small local changes in the RNA structure. Çm spin labels are thus ideally suited for high-precision EPR experiments to probe the structure and, in conjunction with MD simulations, motions of RNA.