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In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity
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Mechanisms of molecular self-replication have the potential to shed light upon the origins of life. In particular, self-replication through RNA-catalysed templated RNA synthesis is thought to have supported a primordial ‘RNA World’. However, existing polymerase ribozymes lack the capacity to synthesise RNAs approaching their own size. Here we report the in vitro evolution of such catalysts directly in the RNA-stabilising medium of water-ice, which yielded RNA polymerase ribozymes specifically adapted to sub-zero temperatures and able to synthesise RNA in ices at temperatures as low as −19°C. Combination of cold-adaptive mutations with a previously described 5′ extension operating at ambient temperatures enabled the design of a first polymerase ribozyme capable of catalysing the accurate synthesis of an RNA sequence longer than itself (adding up to 206 nucleotides), an important stepping stone towards RNA self-replication.
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“Indeed, Y synthesised more RNA in ice (at −7°C) than at 17°C, after just two days’ incubation.”
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“During incubation for one week in ice, Y extends over 35% of primers by 12 nts, before pausing at a challenging template sequence block16.”
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- Not checked yetcites [16] Attwater, J. et al. Chemical fidelity of an RNA polymerase ribozyme. Chem. Sci. 4, 2804–2814 (2013). source
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“Substantial RNA synthesis by the ribozyme could be observed down to temperatures as low as −19°C (Fig. 2b).”
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“As expected, the C60U mutation, derived from the Z ribozyme evolved at ambient temperatures, did not improve activity in ice any more than at ambient temperatures.”
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“Combination of cold-adaptive mutations with a previously described 5′ extension operating at ambient temperatures enabled the design of a first polymerase ribozyme capable of catalysing the accurate synthesis of an RNA sequence longer than itself (adding up to 206 nucleotides), an important stepping stone towards RNA self-replication.”
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“and derived a ribozyme - tC9Y - able to accurately synthesise RNA oligomers longer than the ribozyme itself using a favourable RNA template sequence at 17°C.”
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“Here we report the in vitro evolution of such catalysts directly in the RNA-stabilising medium of water-ice, which yielded RNA polymerase ribozymes specifically adapted to sub-zero temperatures and able to synthesise RNA in ices at temperatures as low as −19°C.”
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“Harnessing the compartmentalised bead-tagging (CBT) RNA selection strategy11 directly in ice, we isolated RNA polymerase ribozymes adapted to frozen conditions”
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Wochner, A., Attwater, J., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ribozyme-catalysed transcription of an active ribozyme. Science 332, 209–212 (2011). source
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- Rests on an assumption: When an aqueous solution containing ions and RNA freezes, the solutes are excluded from growing ice crystals and concentrated into an interstitial eutectic brine.
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“Thirdly, we found a striking deviation of the dinucleotide frequencies from those expected (correcting for the biased nucleotide composition) (Fig. 5d).”
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“tC9Y copied these templates with an overall fidelity comparable to the I-n repeat template (Supplementary Fig. S8c, Table S2).”
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“The G93A and C97A mutations that provide the main cold-specific activity boost are located in the single-stranded linker region of the ribozyme between the catalytic core (1-90) and the processivity domain (105-187).”
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“Firstly, the majority of the template sequences exhibited a low propensity to form stable secondary structure elements (as judged by mfold26).”
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Zuker, M. Mfold web server for nucleic acid folding and hybridization prediction. Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 3406–3415 (2003). source
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“Reversion greatly reduced polymerase activity, but its impact differed at different temperatures: ratios of quantified extensions at ambient temperatures and in ice indicate that G93A and C97A are the key mutations responsible for boosting cold-specific activity, with U72G providing a minor contribution (Fig. 3b).”
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“Y outperformed the parent R18 ribozyme on a range of templates (Supplementary Fig. S3d), but in particular displayed substantial polymerase activity in ice at −7°C (Fig. 1c).”
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“While Y outperformed R18 by fourfold at 17°C (as judged by gel densitometry of average extension per primer15,22), at −7°C the differential rose to more than 15-fold in ice, and more than 30-fold in a supercooled solution.”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Attwater, J., Wochner, A., Pinheiro, V. B., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ice as a protocellular medium for RNA replication. Nature Commun. 1, 76 (2010). source
- Not checked yetcites [22] Muller, U. F. & Bartel, D. P. Improved polymerase ribozyme efficiency on hydrophobic assemblies. RNA 14, 552–562 (2008). source
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“C8 exhibited only three mutations with respect to the parent R18 sequence (U72G, G93A, C97A, Supplementary Fig. S3a), which together provided superior in-ice polymerase activity.”
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“RPA screening identified two polymerase ribozyme clones with improved in-ice primer extension activity, C30 and C8, both of which outperformed R18 on two different primer/template combinations (Supplementary Fig. S1c, d).”
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“Introducing the previously described C60U mutation11 from Z gave a moderate further boost to activity (Supplementary Fig. S3b, c) yielding the ribozyme ‘Y’ (Fig. 1b).”
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“Engineering C30 yielded the ribozyme ‘W’ which displayed a phenotype related to that of ‘Z’ (an R18 ribozyme variant with increased sequence generality evolved independently at 17°C11), but which possessed an additional set of moderately cold-adaptive mutations (Supplementary Fig. S2).”
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Wochner, A., Attwater, J., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ribozyme-catalysed transcription of an active ribozyme. Science 332, 209–212 (2011). source
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“Comparison of RNA synthesis by R18 and Y over a range of temperatures revealed a lower temperature optimum for Y that supported significant activity at −7°C in ice and in supercooled solutions (Fig. 2a).”
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“These (likely interdependent) characteristics include a low tendency for secondary structure formation, a reduced G-content as well as bias against -DD- (D= A, G, U) dinucleotides (with the exception of -UU-) (Fig. 5).”
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“From this pool (Supplementary Table S3) we randomly selected five ~50 nt template sequences (A50, B50, C50, D50 and E50, Fig. 5a), of which four (A50, B50, D50, E50) could be extended to full length (~+50 nts) both at ambient temperatures (Fig. 5b) and in ice (Supplementary Fig. S8b).”
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“Furthermore, the parental R18 ribozyme shows a preference for a shorter template (I-s) on which Y performs worse than on the longer template I”
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“in ice the template sequence pool remained diverse over four rounds of selection, during which templates capable of directing full-length syntheses emerged (Supplementary Fig. S8a).”
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“Sanger sequencing of full length products11 (Supplementary Table S2) indicated that the Y mutations conferred a modest fidelity improvement at 17°C to 98.3% compared to 97.3% for tC1911, and in ice to 94.8% compared to 93.4% for R1815.”
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Wochner, A., Attwater, J., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ribozyme-catalysed transcription of an active ribozyme. Science 332, 209–212 (2011). source
- Not checked yetcites [15] Attwater, J., Wochner, A., Pinheiro, V. B., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ice as a protocellular medium for RNA replication. Nature Commun. 1, 76 (2010). source
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“Whereas R18 could only achieve limited polymerisation upon such templates, Y was able to synthesise long extension products up to +30 nt in ice.”
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“Indeed, Y performs better when a long downstream single-stranded template is available, without requiring specific base-pairing with a template sequence motif (Fig. 3c).”
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“With ~97.5% of primers extended beyond each successive nucleotide by the end of the week-long incubation (Supplementary Fig. S5a), tC9Y exhibits a termination probability per incorporation on these favourable templates of 0.012-0.025.”
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“Due to the influence of the Y mutations, tC9Y is also the fastest and most efficient polymerase ribozyme described so far, yielding 63 nt products after only 16 hours and 206 nt products after 60 hours (Supplementary Fig. S4).”
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“The novel in-ice selected RNA polymerase ribozymes (Supplementary Fig. S9) displayed both cold-specific adaptations, allowing ribozyme-catalysed RNA synthesis to proceed in ices at temperatures as low as −19°C (Fig. 2), and generic i.e. temperature- and medium-independent activity improvements”
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“To better understand this, we isolated a diverse repertoire of novel long (50 nt) RNA sequences by in-ice selection that proved efficient templates for enzymatic RNA synthesis both in ice and at ambient temperatures.”
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“This is an approximately 2-fold improvement on tC19 (0.019-0.05) and 4-fold improvement on tC19Z (0.03-0.1) (Supplementary Fig. S6), previously the most efficient polymerase ribozymes described11.”
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“Combining these three mutations from the in-ice ribozyme selection with the previously identified C60U mutation and the 5′ terminal ssC19 tag11 yielded a novel polymerase ribozyme tC9Y that could synthesise RNA polymers of up to 206 nts in length (Fig. 4a), longer than itself (202 nts), illustrating the synthetic potential of polymerase ribozymes.”
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“As well as proceeding much more slowly (Supplementary Fig. S4a), initiation of frozen extension in this setup was inefficient.”
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“Analysis of 1.17×105 positions revealed a 97.7% fidelity for full length products, and a slightly lower overall fidelity of 97.4% when including all incomplete extension products (Supplementary Fig. S7a, Table S2).”
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“Ice is also one of a range of heterogeneous prebiotic media (including aerosols, lipidic membranes and porous rock17-20) with the potential to effect RNA compartmentalisation, a prerequisite for evolution6.”
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“However, the activity of R18 falls short of that required for self-replication in both its limited synthetic capacity (exacerbated by a low affinity for substrate primer/template duplex14) as well as its poor stability in the presence of the high concentration of Mg2+ ions (200 mM) required for polymerase activity9,15,16.”
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Lawrence, M. S. & Bartel, D. P. Processivity of ribozyme-catalysed RNA polymerization. Biochemistry 42, 8748–8755 (2003). source
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Attwater, J., Wochner, A., Pinheiro, V. B., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ice as a protocellular medium for RNA replication. Nature Commun. 1, 76 (2010). source
- Not checked yetcites [16] Attwater, J. et al. Chemical fidelity of an RNA polymerase ribozyme. Chem. Sci. 4, 2804–2814 (2013). source
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“These results indicate both generic as well as ice-specific improvements in RNA polymerase ribozyme activity with the latter arising primarily from an adaptation to cold temperatures rather than to ice surfaces or structural features.”
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“R18 is a ribozyme, approximately 200 nucleotides (nt) long, derived from a ligase ribozyme generated de novo from a random RNA sequence pool12,13, and can catalyse the templated extension of RNA primers by up to 14 nucleotides (nts) using nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs)9.”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Introduction
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“We had previously shown that ice, a biphasic medium, could enhance both polymerase ribozyme activity and stability15 - despite the poor adaptation of the R18 polymerase ribozyme (evolved at 22°C) to the low temperatures of the ice phase (−7°C).”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Attwater, J., Wochner, A., Pinheiro, V. B., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ice as a protocellular medium for RNA replication. Nature Commun. 1, 76 (2010). source
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“The concentration effect of eutectic phase formation restores an optimal eutectic phase composition from this diluted extension buffer, reducing bead aggregation within the eutectic phase.”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Materials and methods > In ice ribozyme selection
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“Ribozymes remained ligated to beads during extension, improving local primer extension.”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Materials and methods > In ice ribozyme selection
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“To effectively explore sequence space using our modestly sized mutant repertoire (5×107) we exploited the strategies of neutral drift and recombination using three initial rounds of in-ice CBT at low stringency (requiring primer extension by 3-5 nucleotides for RCA signal, to deplete the sequence pool of detrimental mutations), followed by recombination and five additional rounds of in-ice CBT”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Results > In-ice selection of ribozyme polymerase activity
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“Examination of the crystal structure of the Class I RNA ligase29,30, from which the catalytic core of the ribozyme polymerase is derived, suggests this sequence is well-positioned to interact with the downstream RNA template (Fig. 3a), and could augment the sequence-general contacts the ribozyme makes with the upstream duplex16,29,31 to enhance primer/template binding.”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [29] Shechner, D. M. et al. Crystal structure of the catalytic core of an RNA-polymerase ribozyme. Science 326, 1271–1275 (2009). source
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“the 5′-‘ssC19’ sequence extension (5′-GUCAUUG-), previously shown to enhance synthesis of long RNAs by facilitating ribozyme tethering to the 5′ end of the template11.”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Results > Synthesis of long RNAs in ice and at ambient temperatures
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Wochner, A., Attwater, J., Coulson, A. & Holliger, P. Ribozyme-catalysed transcription of an active ribozyme. Science 332, 209–212 (2011). source
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“In this study we have demonstrated the in-ice directed evolution of RNA function, showing adaptation of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity to the conditions of the eutectic phase of water ice (Fig. 1).”
§ In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity > Discussion
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- Rests on an assumption: When an aqueous solution containing ions and RNA freezes, the solutes are excluded from growing ice crystals and concentrated into an interstitial eutectic brine.
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When an aqueous solution containing ions and RNA freezes, the solutes are excluded from growing ice crystals and concentrated into an interstitial eutectic brine.
“Ice formation from an aqueous solution comprising solutes such as ions and RNA results in a non-uniform, biphasic system whereby the solutes, including RNA, are excluded from the growing ice crystals and are concentrated in an interstitial brine, called the eutectic phase.”
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A modest random mutant library combined with neutral drift and recombination can effectively explore sequence space.
“To effectively explore sequence space using our modestly sized mutant repertoire (5×107) we exploited the strategies of neutral drift and recombination”
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The 95 selected template sequences are representative enough to reveal general features that affect RNA template replicability.
“Analysis of 95 selected template sequences revealed a consistent set of attributes that appear to critically influence the replicability of a given RNA sequence.”
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“When the reaction is performed in the eutectic phase of water ice, even longer polymers can be obtained because of the increased concentration of reactants and reduced rate of RNA degradation under these near-frozen conditions”
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“However, recently synthesized RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (replicase) ribozymes [105,106,107] are highly complex and quite long (longer than the maximal length allowed by Eigen’s paradox).”
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“Prior forms of the class I polymerase generally had difficulty extending past a misincorporated nucleotide, so the full-length products contain fewer mutations compared with the partial-length products (10, 13).”
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“Polymerase ribozymes have been selected in vitro over decades, showing improvement over a series of selections, and now have sufficiently high fidelity to accurately copy sequences 80–200 nucleotides long [94–100].”
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“In the laboratory, cold conditions in icy environments promote the activity of synthetic RNA polymerase ribozymes, while also protecting the macromolecule from hydrolysis.”
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“While colder temperatures would slow down RNA polymerization rates, the enhanced stabilization and reduced degradation of the ribozyme counteract this effect, permitting synthesis of remarkably long molecules (Attwater et al. 2013;Attwater et al. 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Attwater, J., Wochner, A., & Holliger, P.
- Affiliations
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Holliger, Philipp
- Venue
- Nature Chemistry
- Published
- 2013-10-20
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1011-1018
- ISSN
- 1755-4330 (ISSN-L)
- 1755-4349
- PMC
- PMC3920166
- OpenAlex
- W2075152880
- Semantic Scholar
- 5ce5403ee8b97dff394e91c0cecbffb2129a3e2d
- Cited by
- 279
- References
- 36
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- FWCI
- 12.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Keywords
- RNA self-replication, RNA world, origin of life, cold adaptation, subzero temperatures, RNA synthesis, in vitro evolution, water ice
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Biological, Base Sequence, Cold Temperature, Ice, Models, Genetic, Molecular Sequence Data, Nucleic Acid Conformation, RNA, RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase, RNA, Catalytic, Evolution, Molecular
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