UMass Chan Affiliations
RNA Therapeutics InstituteDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2018-06-25Keywords
translation release factortranslation regulation
ribosome structure
ribosome function
RNA–protein interaction
70S ribosome
hot-spot sense codon
hydrophobic interactions
near-stop codon
Biochemistry
Structural Biology
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Accurate translation termination by release factors (RFs) is critical for the integrity of cellular proteomes. Premature termination on sense codons, for example, results in truncated proteins, whose accumulation could be detrimental to the cell. Nevertheless, some sense codons are prone to triggering premature termination, but the structural basis for this is unclear. To investigate premature termination, we determined a cryo-EM structure of the Escherichia coli 70S ribosome bound with RF1 in response to a UAU (Tyr) sense codon. The structure reveals that RF1 recognizes a UAU codon similarly to a UAG stop codon, suggesting that sense codons induce premature termination because they structurally mimic a stop codon. Hydrophobic interaction between the nucleobase of U3 (the third position of the UAU codon) and conserved Ile 196 in RF1 is important for misreading the UAU codon. Analyses of RNA binding in ribonucleoprotein complexes or by amino acids reveal that Ile-U packing is a frequent protein-RNA binding motif with key functional implications. We discuss parallels with eukaryotic translation termination by the release factor eRF1.Source
J Biol Chem. 2018 Jun 25. pii: AW118.003232. doi: 10.1074/jbc.AW118.003232. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1074/jbc.AW118.003232Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/48824PubMed ID
29941456Related Resources
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© 2018 Svidritskiy et al. Publisher PDF posted after 12 months as allowed by the publisher's author rights policy at http://www.jbc.org/site/misc/edpolicy.xhtml#copyright.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1074/jbc.AW118.003232