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An example of an RNA stem-loop. If now a second RNA stem-loop has complementary base-sequence, the two loops can base pair resulting in a kissin loop.

A kissing stem-loop, or kissing stem loop interaction, is formed in RNA when two bases between two hairpin loops pair. These intra- and intermolecular kissing interactions are important in forming the tertiary or quaternary structure of many RNAs.[1]

RNA kissing interactions, also called loop-loop pseudoknots, occur when the unpaired nucleotides in one hairpin loop, base pair with the unpaired nucleotides in another hairpin loop.[2] When the hairpin loops are located on separate RNA molecules, their intermolecular interaction is called a kissing complex. These interactions generally form between stem-loops. However, stable complexes have been observed containing only two intermolecular Watson–Crick base pairs.[3][4]

Biological significance

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules perform their function in living cells by adopting specific and highly complex 3-dimensional structures. It is believed that recombination may be intitated by the kissing loops. Recombination is critical to successful evolution, especially in the adaptation and survival of viruses.[5][6]

Significance of Kissing stem-loop interaction in Retroviruses

Retroviruses are viruses that are very similar in structure, which allows them to silently replicate inside a host, keeping it alive until the replication is completed and the host is no longer needed. The genomic RNA of retroviruses is linked non-covalently to the dimer linkage structure (DLS), a the non-coding region in the 5' UTR. For the kissing loop interaction to occur, there is a triple interaction that involves a 5'-flanking purine and 2 centralized bases in the complementary strand. This interaction transcripts in the major groove of the kissing loop dimer.[7]

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that can be transmitted via the interactions of bodily fluids. There are two types of HIV viruses, Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 2 (HIV-2). From the two types of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus strain, HIV-1 is the most common strain. The RNA of the HIV-1 virus uses the kissing stem loop interaction as a means of recognition, the main step of interaction of the Dimerization initiation site (DIS) to form the duplex. To study the kissing stem-loop loop interaction, It was seen that the Dimerization initiation site (DIS) complex was essential to the replication of the HIV type 1 virus in the eukaryotic cell, and any changed to the stem loop structure diminished the dimerization interaction. Experimentally, it has been seen that, in vivo, mutating the Dimerization initiation site (DIS) obstructed the dimerization of the DIS complex. [8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "A stem-loop "kissing" model for the initiation of recombination and the origin of introns" (PDF). Molecular Biology and Evolution. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040273.
  2. ^ Nowakowski, J.; Tinoco, I.; Jr (1997). "Semin". Virology. 8: 153–165. doi:10.1006/smvy.1997.0118.
  3. ^ Kim, C. H.; Tinoco, I.; Jr (2000). "A retroviral RNA kissing complex containing only two G{middle dot". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97: 9396–9401. doi:10.1073/pnas.170283697. PMC 16875.
  4. ^ Andersen, Angela A.; Collins, Richard A. (2001). "Intramolecular secondary structure rearrangement by the kissing interaction of the Neurospora VS ribozyme". PNAS. 98 (14): 7735. doi:10.1073/pnas.141039198. PMC 35410.
  5. ^ Chen, Yu, and Varani, Gabriele(Jun 2010) RNA Structure. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester.
  6. ^ "RNA Structure". Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0001339.pub2.
  7. ^ "Non-canonical interactions in a kissing loop complex: the dimerization initiation site of HIV-1 genomic RNA". Journal of Molecular Biology. 270 (1): 36–49. 1997-07-04. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997.1096. ISSN 0022-2836.
  8. ^ Paillart, Jean-Christophe; Skripkin, Eugene; Ehresmann, Bernard; Ehresmann, Chantal; Marquet, Roland (1996). "A Loop-Loop ``Kissing" Complex is the Essential Part of the Dimer Linkage of Genomic HIV-1 RNA". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 93 (11): 5572–5577.
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