PMID:16023137

Citation	Adilakshmi, T, Ramaswamy, P and Woodson, SA (2005) Protein-independent folding pathway of the 16S rRNA 5' domain. J. Mol. Biol. 351:508-19
Abstract	Evolution of the ribosome from an RNA catalyst suggests that the intrinsic folding pathway of the rRNA dictates the hierarchy of ribosome assembly. To address this possibility, we probed the tertiary folding pathway of the 5' domain of the Escherichia coli 16S rRNA at 20 ms intervals using X-ray-dependent hydroxyl radical footprinting. Comparison with crystallographic structures and footprinting reactions on native 30S ribosomes showed that the RNA formed all of the predicted tertiary interactions in the absence of proteins. In 20 mM MgCl2, many tertiary interactions appeared within 20 ms. By contrast, interactions between H6, H15 and H17 near the spur of the 30S ribosome evolved over several minutes, likely due to mispairing of a central helix junction. The kinetic folding pathway of the RNA corresponded to the expected order of protein binding, suggesting that the RNA folding pathway forms the basis for early steps of ribosome assembly.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.020
Keywords	Base Sequence; Models, Molecular; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleic Acid Conformation; Protein Folding; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry
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