A new protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting

Betts J, Jeffries C Passchier T, Kung H, Graham S, Abdelhamid M, Howard J, Craggs T, Graham S, Brierley I, Leake M, Quinn S, Hill C, (2025) DOI

SASDWR5 – Stimulatory element RNA

Stimulatory element RNA
MWexperimental 14 kDa
MWexpected 12 kDa
VPorod 19 nm3
log I(s) 7.53×103 7.53×102 7.53×101 7.53×100
Stimulatory element RNA small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Stimulatory element RNA Guinier plot ln 7.53×103 Rg: 1.9 nm 0 (1.9 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Stimulatory element RNA Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Stimulatory element RNA pair distance distribution function Rg: 2.0 nm 0 Dmax: 8 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Stimulatory element RNA SREFLEX model
Stimulatory element RNA OTHER [STATIC IMAGE] model

log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Stimulatory element RNA MONSA model

log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Stimulatory element RNA COOT model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of stimulatory element RNA in 20 mM HEPES pH 7.4, 400 mM KCl 2% v/v glycerol, 1 mM DTT were collected on the EMBL P12 beam line at PETRA III (DESY; Hamburg, Germany) using a Pilatus 6M detector at a sample-detector distance of 3 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.123983 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A 50.00 μl sample at 7.1 mg/ml was injected at a 0.35 ml/min flow rate onto a GE Superdex 75 Increase 5/150 column at 20°C. 57 successive 0.250 second frames were collected through the SEC-elution peak. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

The models displayed in this entry show: Top: A post normal-mode SREFLEX model obtained using an AlphaFold-predicted structure of the RNA as an initial template, and an alignment of several different SREFLEX outputs. Middle: a MONSA ab initio dummy-atom model reconstruction of the RNA particle. Bottom: A pseudoknot conformation based on the X-ray crystal structure of the RNA in complex with Protein 2A (refer to SASBDB entry SASDWS5; https://www.sasbdb.org/data/SASDWS5). The full entry archive contains the unsubtracted SEC-SAXS 1D-data frames in addition to DAMMIN, MONSA and SREFLEX modelling routines.

Stimulatory element RNA
Mol. type   RNA
Organism   synthetic RNA
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   11.8 kDa
Sequence   FASTA