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Studying the dimeric RNA structural organization is a step toward the understanding of retroviral genomic RNA dimerization. A kissing loop dimer is rearranged into an extended dimer during maturation of the virus particle. The extended dimer formation may be inhibited by ligands interacting with the RNA kissing loop dimer. A study was made of the interaction of dimeric RNA with paromomycin and magnesium ions. RNA dimers were formed from two hairpin RNAs having complementary sequences in the loop. The structural features of RNA dimers and the influence of the ligands were inferred from the fluorescence of 2-aminopurine (2-AP) incorporated in one of the two RNA hairpin sequences. As dimeric RNA interacted with paromomycin, 2-AP fluorescence increased. The increase was explained by a flipping of the fluorescent base out of the RNA structure. The binding constants and stoichiometry were estimated for dimeric RNA binding with paromomycin. An RNA dimer was found to interact with two paromomycin molecules; the binding constant was approximately the same (about 3 × 105 M−1) for both types of dimers. It was observed that the antibiotic and Mg2+ ions compete for binding to the hairpin RNA dimer and that one paromomycin molecule is displaced by one Mg2+ ion.
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Original Russian Text © D.N. Kaluzhny, E.E. Minyat, 2009, published in Molekulyarnaya Biologiya, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 675–681.
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Kaluzhny, D.N., Minyat, E.E. Interaction of the dimeric form of retroviral RNA with paromonycin and magnesium as revealed using 2-aminopurine fluorescence. Mol Biol 43, 620–625 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026893309040141
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