Microscale thermophoresis provides insights into mechanism and thermodynamics of ribozyme catalysis.

ABSTRACT: The analysis of binding interactions between small molecules and biopolymers is important for understanding biological processes. While fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) requires fluorescence labeling on the small molecule, which often interferes with binding, in microscale thermophoresis (MST) the label can be placed on the biopolymer. Ribozymes have not been analyzed by MST so far. The Diels-Alderase ribozyme (DAse) is a true catalyst, facilitating the Diels-Alder reaction between two free small substrates, anthracene dienes, and maleimide dienophiles. Despite high efforts, the determination of the dissociation constant (KD) of maleimide dienophiles to the DAse by FCS has been unsuccessful. Here, we determined the binding interactions of the DAse to its substrates and the Diels

SUBMITTER: Gaffarogullari EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3917984 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature