Mechanistic insights into editing-site specificity of ADARs
- 5 November 2012
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Vol. 109 (48), E3295-304
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212548109
Abstract
Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) deaminate adenosines in dsRNA to produce inosines. ADARs are essential in mammals and are particularly important in the nervous system. Altered levels of adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing are observed in several diseases. The extent to which an adenosine is edited depends on sequence context. Human ADAR2 (hADAR2) has 5' and 3' neighbor preferences, but which amino acids mediate these preferences, and by what mechanism, is unknown. We performed a screen in yeast to identify mutations in the hADAR2 catalytic domain that allow editing of an adenosine within a disfavored triplet. Binding affinity, catalytic rate, base flipping, and preferences were monitored to understand the effects of the mutations on ADAR reactivity. Our data provide information on the amino acids that affect preferences and point to a conserved loop as being of key importance. Unexpectedly, our data suggest that hADAR2's preferences derive from differential base flipping rather than from direct recognition of neighboring bases. Our studies set the stage for understanding the basis of altered editing levels in disease and for developing therapeutic reagents.Keywords
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