title: Similarities between intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds in RNA kissing complexes found by means of cross-correlated relaxation.
abstract: The bond lengths and dynamics of intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds in an RNA kissing complex have been characterized by determining the NMR relaxation rates of various double- and triple-quantum coherences that involve an imino proton and two neighboring nitrogen-15 nuclei belonging to opposite bases. New experiments allow one to determine the chemical shift anisotropy of the imino protons. The bond lengths derived from dipolar relaxation and the lack of modulations of the nitrogen chemical shifts indicate that the intermolecular hydrogen bonds which hold the kissing complex together are very similar to the intramolecular hydrogen bonds in the double-stranded stem of the RNA.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et Biologique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, BCH, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dittmer
authors.forename: Chul-Hyun
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bodenhausen
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods*; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D012313:RNA