RNA-proteininterac/onsandthestructureofthegene/ccode

BojanZagrovicDepartmentofStructuralandComputa/onalBiology

UniversityofVienna

Evolu/onworkshop,Salzburg,07.07.2018

Physicochemicalcomplementarityoneofthemostpowerfulparadigmsinbiology

geneduplica/on

PDB:1QPH

immuneresponse

an#body

an#genPDB:1WBU

enzyma/ccatalysis

Krautetal.PLOSB,4,2006

anovelcomplementarity?

messengerRNA-proteinrela/onship:thecornerstoneofmolecularbiology

S21mRNA

ribosomalproteinS21(PDB:4GD2)

linkedbytheuniversalgene/ccode

physicochemicalconnec/on?

Whatistheaffinityofaminoacidsforpyrimidines?

pyridine

LEUinDMP:H2O

ASPinDMP:H2O

WoeseCRetal.,PNAS,55:966-974(1966)MathewDC&Luthey-SchultenZ,JMolEvol,66:519-528(2008)

pyrimidine

CarlWoese

*DMP:2,6-dimethylpyridine

a.u.

THECENTRALFINDING

HlevnjakM,PolyanskyAA&ZagrovicB,NucleicAcidsResearch,40,2012PolyanskyAA,HlevnjakM&ZagrovicB,RNABiology,10,2013

H.sapiens

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Asta/s/callyrobustfindingofuniversalvalidity

HlevnjakM,PolyanskyAA&ZagrovicB,NucleicAcidsResearch,40,2012PolyanskyAA,HlevnjakM&ZagrovicB,RNABiology,10,2013

gene#ccodeshuffling differentorganisms

Whataboutnaturalbasesand,inpar/cular,purines?

•  3Dstructuresof~300protein-RNAcomplexes

freeenergyproxiesfromcontactsta#s#cs:

*inunitsofkBT

PolyanskyAA&ZagrovicB,NAR,18:8434-8443(2013)

medianR-valuesforprofilematchingdistribuaons

mRNAPUR-densityvs.proteinG-affinity

mR

NA

PU

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prot

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ffini

ty (k

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mR

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ty (k

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mRNAPYR-densityvs.proteinPYR-affinity

Animportantexcep/on:ADE-preferringaminoacidstendtobeencodedbyPYR-richstretchesandviceversa

PolyanskyAA&ZagrovicB,NAR,18:8434-8443(2013)

Hypotheses

prot

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PY

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ffini

ty

mR

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PY

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Hlevnjak,Polyansky&Zagrovic,NAR,40,2012;Polyansky&Zagrovic,NAR,41,2013;PolyanskyAA,HlevnjakM&ZagrovicB,RNABiology,10,2013;Hajnic,Osorio&Zagrovic,NAR,42,2014;Hajnic,Osorio&Zagrovic,PCCP,17,2015;deRuiter&Zagrovic,NAR,43,2015;Hlevnjak&Zagrovic,NAR,43,2015;Bartonek&Zagrovic,PLOSCB,13,2017

1. our findings support the possibility of aconnecaon between nucleobase/amino-acidbindingandgeneacencoding(suchasinthedirecttempla/ngmechanismofancienttranslaaon)

stereochemicalhypothesis(WoeseCR,1965):

“codingfrombinding”

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Hypotheses

1. our findings support the possibility of aconnecaon between nucleobase/amino-acidbindingandgeneacencoding(suchasinthedirecttempla/ngmechanismofancienttranslaaon)

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2.today’smRNAsandcognateproteinsmaybecomplementarytoeachotherandbind,especiallyifunstructured.ComplementarityisnegaavelyregulatedbymRNAADEcontent.

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Hlevnjak,Polyansky&Zagrovic,NAR,40,2012;Polyansky&Zagrovic,NAR,41,2013;PolyanskyAA,HlevnjakM&ZagrovicB,RNABiology,10,2013;Hajnic,Osorio&Zagrovic,NAR,42,2014;Hajnic,Osorio&Zagrovic,PCCP,17,2015;deRuiter&Zagrovic,NAR,43,2015;Hlevnjak&Zagrovic,NAR,43,2015;Bartonek&Zagrovic,PLOSCB,13,2017

mRNArecodingvs.cognatematching

codonusagebias

HlevnjakM&ZagrovicB,NAR,43,3012-3021(2015)

prot

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pola

r req

uire

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mR

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Woesepyridinescale

Func/onalsignificance•  PotenaallyrelevantinmanyareasofRNA/proteinbiology:

•  translaaonregulaaon•  viralcapsidassembly•  structureofnon-membrane-boundcellularcompartments•  proteininteracaonswithDNA,lncRNAetc.

?enrichmentanalysis

PolyanskyAA,HlevnjakM&ZagrovicB,inprepara#on

PR/PYRmatching

Acasestudy:assemblyoftheMS2bacteriophage

genome%PYRprofile

coatproteinPYRaffinityprofileIDEA:

CPCDS

Daietal.Nature,541,2017

Comparisonagainsta3.6ÅcryoEMstructureofMS2

16high-resoluaonRNAstemloopswithcapsidprotein

R≤-0.6

MS2genome

RNAPYRconten

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coatproteinPYR

*affi

nityA.coatproteinCDS B.packagingsignal C.replicaseCDS

MS2genome/CPsequence

Profile-basedpredic/onsmatchexperimentalloca/onsofstemloops

A B C

PoetschF,HlevnjakM,PolyanskyAA&ZagrovicB,inpreparaaon

Originofthegene/ccodecodingfrombinding?

Newparadigms?•  translaaonregulaaon•  viralcapsidassembly•  cellularnetworks…

RNA-proteininterac/onsanovelmechanisacperspecave

mRNA-PROTEINCOMPLEMENTARITY

OPENCHALLENGESgeometry;ΔGs;funcaonalsignificance;experimentaltesang

Thanks

Presentmembers•  AntonA.Polyansky•  LukasBartonek•  MarkusFleck•  FlorianPötsch•  DanielBraun•  DanielHoffmann

Formermembers•  MateaHajnic•  AnitadeRuiter•  MarioHlevnjak•  JuanOsorioIregui•  TheresFriesacher•  GeraldPlatzer•  AntonijaKuzmanic•  DrazenPetrov•  DanielaKruschel•  ChrisaanMargreiper•  MaajaPiskorec•  MijoSimunovic•  RubenZubac•  NatalieRomanov•  LilyChen•  RaphaelPeer•  ThomasMalzac•  BiancaMladek•  MaudFormanek•  AlexanderBeribisky•  MathiasKreuter

Collaborators•  RobertKonrat,MFPL•  ReneeSchroeder,MFPL•  KrisanaDjinovic,MFPL•  PhilippeH.Huenenberger,ETHZurich•  NavrajS.Pannu,LeidenUniversity•  CarrieBernecky,ISTA•  ChrisOostenbrink,BOKUVienna

Funding