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Zhou J, Lancaster L, Trakhanov S, Noller HF. Crystal structure of release factor RF3 trapped in the GTP state on a rotated conformation of the ribosome. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2012; 18:230-40. [PMID: 22187675 PMCID: PMC3264910 DOI: 10.1261/rna.031187.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The class II release factor RF3 is a GTPase related to elongation factor EF-G, which catalyzes release of class I release factors RF1 and RF2 from the ribosome after termination of protein synthesis. The 3.3 Å crystal structure of the RF3·GDPNP·ribosome complex provides a high-resolution description of interactions and structural rearrangements that occur when binding of this translational GTPase induces large-scale rotational movements in the ribosome. RF3 induces a 7° rotation of the body and 14° rotation of the head of the 30S ribosomal subunit, and itself undergoes inter- and intradomain conformational rearrangements. We suggest that ordering of critical elements of switch loop I and the P loop, which help to form the GTPase catalytic site, are caused by interactions between the G domain of RF3 and the sarcin-ricin loop of 23S rRNA. The rotational movements in the ribosome induced by RF3, and its distinctly different binding orientation to the sarcin-ricin loop of 23S rRNA, raise interesting implications for the mechanism of action of EF-G in translocation.
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- Jie Zhou
- Center for Molecular Biology of RNA and Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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- Center for Molecular Biology of RNA and Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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- Center for Molecular Biology of RNA and Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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- Center for Molecular Biology of RNA and Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
- Corresponding author.E-mail .
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Graille M, Figaro S, Kervestin S, Buckingham RH, Liger D, Heurgué-Hamard V. Methylation of class I translation termination factors: structural and functional aspects. Biochimie 2012; 94:1533-43. [PMID: 22266024 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2012.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2011] [Accepted: 01/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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During protein synthesis, release of polypeptide from the ribosome occurs when an in frame termination codon is encountered. Contrary to sense codons, which are decoded by tRNAs, stop codons present in the A-site are recognized by proteins named class I release factors, leading to the release of newly synthesized proteins. Structures of these factors bound to termination ribosomal complexes have recently been obtained, and lead to a better understanding of stop codon recognition and its coordination with peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis in bacteria. Release factors contain a universally conserved GGQ motif which interacts with the peptidyl-transferase centre to allow peptide release. The Gln side chain from this motif is methylated, a feature conserved from bacteria to man, suggesting an important biological role. However, methylation is catalysed by completely unrelated enzymes. The function of this motif and its post-translational modification will be discussed in the context of recent structural and functional studies.
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- Marc Graille
- IBBMC, Université Paris-Sud 11, CNRS UMR8619, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France.
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Zheng W, Tekpinar M. Accurate flexible fitting of high-resolution protein structures to small-angle x-ray scattering data using a coarse-grained model with implicit hydration shell. Biophys J 2011; 101:2981-91. [PMID: 22208197 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2011] [Revised: 10/06/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) is a powerful technique widely used to explore conformational states and transitions of biomolecular assemblies in solution. For accurate model reconstruction from SAXS data, one promising approach is to flexibly fit a known high-resolution protein structure to low-resolution SAXS data by computer simulations. This is a highly challenging task due to low information content in SAXS data. To meet this challenge, we have developed what we believe to be a novel method based on a coarse-grained (one-bead-per-residue) protein representation and a modified form of the elastic network model that allows large-scale conformational changes while maintaining pseudobonds and secondary structures. Our method optimizes a pseudoenergy that combines the modified elastic-network model energy with a SAXS-fitting score and a collision energy that penalizes steric collisions. Our method uses what we consider a new implicit hydration shell model that accounts for the contribution of hydration shell to SAXS data accurately without explicitly adding waters to the system. We have rigorously validated our method using five test cases with simulated SAXS data and three test cases with experimental SAXS data. Our method has successfully generated high-quality structural models with root mean-squared deviation of 1 ∼ 3 Å from the target structures.
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- Wenjun Zheng
- Physics Department, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA.
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Ahmed A, Whitford PC, Sanbonmatsu KY, Tama F. Consensus among flexible fitting approaches improves the interpretation of cryo-EM data. J Struct Biol 2011; 177:561-70. [PMID: 22019767 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2011] [Revised: 10/05/2011] [Accepted: 10/06/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Cryo-elecron microscopy (cryo-EM) can provide important structural information of large macromolecular assemblies in different conformational states. Recent years have seen an increase in structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) by fitting a high-resolution structure into its low-resolution cryo-EM map. A commonly used protocol for accommodating the conformational changes between the X-ray structure and the cryo-EM map is rigid body fitting of individual domains. With the emergence of different flexible fitting approaches, there is a need to compare and revise these different protocols for the fitting. We have applied three diverse automated flexible fitting approaches on a protein dataset for which rigid domain fitting (RDF) models have been deposited in the PDB. In general, a consensus is observed in the conformations, which indicates a convergence from these theoretically different approaches to the most probable solution corresponding to the cryo-EM map. However, the result shows that the convergence might not be observed for proteins with complex conformational changes or with missing densities in cryo-EM map. In contrast, RDF structures deposited in the PDB can represent conformations that not only differ from the consensus obtained by flexible fitting but also from X-ray crystallography. Thus, this study emphasizes that a "consensus" achieved by the use of several automated flexible fitting approaches can provide a higher level of confidence in the modeled configurations. Following this protocol not only increases the confidence level of fitting, but also highlights protein regions with uncertain fitting. Hence, this protocol can lead to better interpretation of cryo-EM data.
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- Aqeel Ahmed
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, 1041 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
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Korostelev AA. Structural aspects of translation termination on the ribosome. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2011; 17:1409-1421. [PMID: 21700725 PMCID: PMC3153966 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2733411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Translation of genetic information encoded in messenger RNAs into polypeptide sequences is carried out by ribosomes in all organisms. When a full protein is synthesized, a stop codon positioned in the ribosomal A site signals termination of translation and protein release. Translation termination depends on class I release factors. Recently, atomic-resolution crystal structures were determined for bacterial 70S ribosome termination complexes bound with release factors RF1 or RF2. In combination with recent biochemical studies, the structures resolve long-standing questions about translation termination. They bring insights into the mechanisms of recognition of all three stop codons, peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis, and coordination of stop-codon recognition with peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis. In this review, the structural aspects of these mechanisms are discussed.
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- Andrei A Korostelev
- RNA Therapeutics Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA.
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Yassin AS, Agrawal RK, Banavali NK. Computational exploration of structural hypotheses for an additional sequence in a mammalian mitochondrial protein. PLoS One 2011; 6:e21871. [PMID: 21779343 PMCID: PMC3136923 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2011] [Accepted: 06/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Proteins involved in mammalian mitochondrial translation, when compared to analogous bacterial proteins, frequently have additional sequence regions whose structural or functional roles are not always clear. For example, an additional short insert sequence in the bovine mitochondrial initiation factor 2 (IF2(mt)) seems sufficient to fulfill the added role of eubacterial initiation factor IF1. Prior to our recent cryo-EM study that showed IF2(mt) to structurally occupy both the IF1 and IF2 binding sites, the spatial separation of these sites, and the short length of the insert sequence, posed ambiguity in whether it could perform the role of IF1 through occupation of the IF1 binding site on the ribosome. RESULTS The present study probes how well computational structure prediction methods can a priori address hypothesized roles of such additional sequences by creating quasi-atomic models of IF2(mt) using bacterial IF2 cryo-EM densities (that lack the insert sequences). How such initial IF2(mt) predictions differ from the observed IF2(mt) cryo-EM map and how they can be suitably improved using further sequence analysis and flexible fitting are analyzed. CONCLUSIONS By hypothesizing that the insert sequence occupies the IF1 binding site, continuous IF2(mt) models that occupy both the IF2 and IF1 binding sites can be predicted computationally. These models can be improved by flexible fitting into the IF2(mt) cryo-EM map to get reasonable quasi-atomic IF2(mt) models, but the exact orientation of the insert structure may not be reproduced. Specific eukaryotic insert sequence conservation characteristics can be used to predict alternate IF2(mt) models that have minor secondary structure rearrangements but fewer unusually extended linker regions. Computational structure prediction methods can thus be combined with medium-resolution cryo-EM maps to explore structure-function hypotheses for additional sequence regions and to guide further biochemical experiments, especially in mammalian systems where high-resolution structures are difficult to determine.
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- Aymen S. Yassin
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Basis of Diseases, Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Basis of Diseases, Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America
- * E-mail: (RKA); (NKB)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America
- Laboratory of Computational and Structural Biology, Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America
- * E-mail: (RKA); (NKB)
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The ribosome as a molecular machine: the mechanism of tRNA-mRNA movement in translocation. Biochem Soc Trans 2011; 39:658-62. [PMID: 21428957 DOI: 10.1042/bst0390658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Translocation of tRNA and mRNA through the ribosome is one of the most dynamic events during protein synthesis. In the cell, translocation is catalysed by EF-G (elongation factor G) and driven by GTP hydrolysis. Major unresolved questions are: how the movement is induced and what the moving parts of the ribosome are. Recent progress in time-resolved cryoelectron microscopy revealed trajectories of tRNA movement through the ribosome. Driven by thermal fluctuations, the ribosome spontaneously samples a large number of conformational states. The spontaneous movement of tRNAs through the ribosome is loosely coupled to the motions within the ribosome. EF-G stabilizes conformational states prone to translocation and promotes a conformational rearrangement of the ribosome (unlocking) that accelerates the rate-limiting step of translocation: the movement of the tRNA anticodons on the small ribosomal subunit. EF-G acts as a Brownian ratchet providing directional bias for movement at the cost of GTP hydrolysis.
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Klaholz BP. Molecular recognition and catalysis in translation termination complexes. Trends Biochem Sci 2011; 36:282-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2011.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2010] [Revised: 02/01/2011] [Accepted: 02/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Accurate flexible fitting of high-resolution protein structures into cryo-electron microscopy maps using coarse-grained pseudo-energy minimization. Biophys J 2011; 100:478-88. [PMID: 21244844 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.3680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2010] [Revised: 11/05/2010] [Accepted: 12/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has been widely used to explore conformational states of large biomolecular assemblies. The detailed interpretation of cryo-EM data requires the flexible fitting of a known high-resolution protein structure into a low-resolution cryo-EM map. To this end, we have developed what we believe is a new method based on a two-bead-per-residue protein representation, and a modified form of the elastic network model that allows large-scale conformational changes while maintaining pseudobonds and secondary structures. Our method minimizes a pseudo-energy which linearly combines various terms of the modified elastic network model energy with a cryo-EM-fitting score and a collision energy that penalizes steric collisions. Unlike previous flexible fitting efforts using the lowest few normal modes, our method effectively utilizes all normal modes so that both global and local structural changes can be fully modeled. We have validated our method for a diverse set of 10 pairs of protein structures using simulated cryo-EM maps with a range of resolutions and in the absence/presence of random noise. We have shown that our method is both accurate and efficient compared with alternative techniques, and its performance is robust to the addition of random noise. Our method is also shown to be useful for the flexible fitting of three experimental cryo-EM maps.
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Nakamura Y, Ito K. tRNA mimicry in translation termination and beyond. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2011; 2:647-68. [DOI: 10.1002/wrna.81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Handa Y, Inaho N, Nameki N. YaeJ is a novel ribosome-associated protein in Escherichia coli that can hydrolyze peptidyl-tRNA on stalled ribosomes. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:1739-48. [PMID: 21051357 PMCID: PMC3061065 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In bacteria, ribosomes often become stalled and are released by a trans-translation process mediated by transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA). In the absence of tmRNA, however, there is evidence that stalled ribosomes are released from non-stop mRNAs. Here, we show a novel ribosome rescue system mediated by a small basic protein, YaeJ, from Escherichia coli, which is similar in sequence and structure to the catalytic domain 3 of polypeptide chain release factor (RF). In vitro translation experiments using the E. coli-based reconstituted cell-free protein synthesis system revealed that YaeJ can hydrolyze peptidyl-tRNA on ribosomes stalled by both non-stop mRNAs and mRNAs containing rare codon clusters that extend downstream from the P-site and prevent Ala-tmRNA•SmpB from entering the empty A-site. In addition, YaeJ had no effect on translation of a normal mRNA with a stop codon. These results suggested a novel tmRNA-independent rescue system for stalled ribosomes in E. coli. YaeJ was almost exclusively found in the 70S ribosome and polysome fractions after sucrose density gradient sedimentation, but was virtually undetectable in soluble fractions. The C-terminal basic residue-rich extension was also found to be required for ribosome binding. These findings suggest that YaeJ functions as a ribosome-attached rescue device for stalled ribosomes.
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- Yoshihiro Handa
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Graduate School of Engineering, Gunma University, 1-5-1 Tenjin-cho, Kiryu-shi, Gunma 376-8515, Japan
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Solution Structure of the Catalytic Domain of the Mitochondrial Protein ICT1 That Is Essential for Cell Vitality. J Mol Biol 2010; 404:260-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.09.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2010] [Revised: 09/14/2010] [Accepted: 09/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Bulygin KN, Khairulina YS, Kolosov PM, Ven'yaminova AG, Graifer DM, Vorobjev YN, Frolova LY, Kisselev LL, Karpova GG. Three distinct peptides from the N domain of translation termination factor eRF1 surround stop codon in the ribosome. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2010; 16:1902-14. [PMID: 20688868 PMCID: PMC2941099 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2066910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2009] [Accepted: 06/27/2010] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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To study positioning of the polypeptide release factor eRF1 toward a stop signal in the ribosomal decoding site, we applied photoactivatable mRNA analogs, derivatives of oligoribonucleotides. The human eRF1 peptides cross-linked to these short mRNAs were identified. Cross-linkers on the guanines at the second, third, and fourth stop signal positions modified fragment 31-33, and to lesser extent amino acids within region 121-131 (the "YxCxxxF loop") in the N domain. Hence, both regions are involved in the recognition of the purines. A cross-linker at the first uridine of the stop codon modifies Val66 near the NIKS loop (positions 61-64), and this region is important for recognition of the first uridine of stop codons. Since the N domain distinct regions of eRF1 are involved in a stop-codon decoding, the eRF1 decoding site is discontinuous and is not of "protein anticodon" type. By molecular modeling, the eRF1 molecule can be fitted to the A site proximal to the P-site-bound tRNA and to a stop codon in mRNA via a large conformational change to one of its three domains. In the simulated eRF1 conformation, the YxCxxxF motif and positions 31-33 are very close to a stop codon, which becomes also proximal to several parts of the C domain. Thus, in the A-site-bound state, the eRF1 conformation significantly differs from those in crystals and solution. The model suggested for eRF1 conformation in the ribosomal A site and cross-linking data are compatible.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Codon, Terminator/genetics
- Codon, Terminator/metabolism
- Cross-Linking Reagents
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Models, Molecular
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Peptide Chain Termination, Translational
- Peptide Fragments/chemistry
- Peptide Fragments/genetics
- Peptide Fragments/metabolism
- Peptide Mapping
- Peptide Termination Factors/chemistry
- Peptide Termination Factors/genetics
- Peptide Termination Factors/metabolism
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Messenger/chemistry
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- RNA, Transfer/metabolism
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Ribosomes/genetics
- Ribosomes/metabolism
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- Konstantin N Bulygin
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Miyashita O, Gorba C, Tama F. Structure modeling from small angle X-ray scattering data with elastic network normal mode analysis. J Struct Biol 2010; 173:451-60. [PMID: 20850542 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Revised: 09/08/2010] [Accepted: 09/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Computational algorithms to construct structural models from SAXS experimental data are reviewed. SAXS data provides a wealth of information to study the structure and dynamics of biological molecules, however it does not provide atomic details of structures. Thus combining the low-resolution data with already known X-ray structure is a common approach to study conformational transitions of biological molecules. This review provides a survey of SAXS modeling approaches. In addition, we will discuss theoretical backgrounds and performance of our approach, in which elastic network normal mode analysis is used to predict reasonable conformational transitions from known X-ray structures, and find alternative conformations that are consistent with SAXS data.
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- Osamu Miyashita
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, 1041 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Yanagisawa T, Sumida T, Ishii R, Takemoto C, Yokoyama S. A paralog of lysyl-tRNA synthetase aminoacylates a conserved lysine residue in translation elongation factor P. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2010; 17:1136-43. [DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2010] [Accepted: 07/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Protein biosynthesis, or translation, occurs on the ribosome, a large RNA-protein assembly universally conserved in all forms of life. Over the last decade, structures of the small and large ribosomal subunits and of the intact ribosome have begun to reveal the molecular details of how the ribosome works. Both cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography continue to provide fresh insights into the mechanism of translation. In this review, we describe the most recent structural models of the bacterial ribosome that shed light on the movement of messenger RNA and transfer RNA on the ribosome after each peptide bond is formed, a process termed translocation. We also discuss recent structures that reveal the molecular basis for stop codon recognition during translation termination. Finally, we review recent advances in understanding how bacteria handle errors in both translocation and termination.
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- Jack A Dunkle
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Recognition of the amber UAG stop codon by release factor RF1. EMBO J 2010; 29:2577-85. [PMID: 20588254 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2010] [Accepted: 05/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We report the crystal structure of a termination complex containing release factor RF1 bound to the 70S ribosome in response to an amber (UAG) codon at 3.6-A resolution. The amber codon is recognized in the 30S subunit-decoding centre directly by conserved elements of domain 2 of RF1, including T186 of the PVT motif. Together with earlier structures, the mechanisms of recognition of all three stop codons by release factors RF1 and RF2 can now be described. Our structure confirms that the backbone amide of Q230 of the universally conserved GGQ motif is positioned to contribute directly to the catalysis of the peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis reaction through stabilization of the leaving group and/or transition state. We also observe synthetic-negative interactions between mutations in the switch loop of RF1 and in helix 69 of 23S rRNA, revealing that these structural features interact functionally in the termination process. These findings are consistent with our proposal that structural rearrangements of RF1 and RF2 are critical to accurate translation termination.
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Gorba C, Tama F. Normal Mode Flexible Fitting of High-Resolution Structures of Biological Molecules Toward SAXS Data. Bioinform Biol Insights 2010; 4:43-54. [PMID: 20634984 PMCID: PMC2901630 DOI: 10.4137/bbi.s4551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We present a method to reconstruct a three-dimensional protein structure from an atomic pair distribution function derived from the scattering intensity profile from SAXS data by flexibly fitting known x-ray structures. This method uses a linear combination of low-frequency normal modes from an elastic network description of the molecule in an iterative manner to deform the structure to conform optimally to the target pair distribution function derived from SAXS data. For computational efficiency, the protein and water molecules included in the protein first hydration shell are coarse-grained. In this paper, we demonstrate the validity of our coarse-graining approach to study SAXS data. Illustrative results of our flexible fitting studies on simulated SAXS data from five different proteins are presented.
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- Christian Gorba
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, 1041 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ, 85721
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Sund J, Andér M, Åqvist J. Principles of stop-codon reading on the ribosome. Nature 2010; 465:947-50. [DOI: 10.1038/nature09082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2010] [Accepted: 04/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Structure of the 70S ribosome bound to release factor 2 and a substrate analog provides insights into catalysis of peptide release. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:8593-8. [PMID: 20421507 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003995107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We report the crystal structure of release factor 2 bound to ribosome with an aminoacyl tRNA substrate analog at the ribosomal P site, at 3.1 A resolution. The structure shows that upon stop-codon recognition, the universally conserved GGQ motif packs tightly into the peptidyl transferase center. Nucleotide A2602 of 23S rRNA, implicated in peptide release, packs with the GGQ motif in release factor 2. The ribose of A76 of the peptidyl-tRNA adopts the C2'-endo conformation, and the 2' hydroxyl of A76 is within hydrogen-bond distance of the 2' hydroxyl of A2451. The structure suggests how a catalytic water can be coordinated in the peptidyl transferase center and, together with previous biochemical and computational data, suggests a model for how the ester bond between the peptidyl tRNA and the nascent peptide is hydrolyzed.
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Matsumoto A, Ishida H. Global conformational changes of ribosome observed by normal mode fitting for 3D Cryo-EM structures. Structure 2010; 17:1605-1613. [PMID: 20004164 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2009.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2009] [Revised: 09/25/2009] [Accepted: 09/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Many three-dimensional density maps of 70S ribosome at various functional states are available now in the Electron Microscopy DataBank at EBI. We used our new flexible-fitting approach to systematically analyze these maps to reveal the global conformational differences between the EM structures. Large-scale ratchet-like deformations were observed in an EM structure of the initiation complex and in some EM structures bound with EFG, RF3, and RRF. In most of them, the L1 stalk, which interacts with the tRNA molecule at the E site of ribosome and is considered to be involved in the release of the tRNA, was in "the blocking state" for the E-tRNA. Furthermore, we found that the EM structures bound with EFG or RRF were aligned in the conformational space, suggesting that the large-scale conformational changes of the 70S ribosome bound with these factors occur along a specific pathway in a concerted manner.
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- Atsushi Matsumoto
- Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan; Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan.
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- Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan; Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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Shatsky M, Hall RJ, Nogales E, Malik J, Brenner SE. Automated multi-model reconstruction from single-particle electron microscopy data. J Struct Biol 2010; 170:98-108. [PMID: 20085819 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2009] [Revised: 01/10/2010] [Accepted: 01/14/2010] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Biological macromolecules can adopt multiple conformational and compositional states due to structural flexibility and alternative subunit assemblies. This structural heterogeneity poses a major challenge in the study of macromolecular structure using single-particle electron microscopy. We propose a fully automated, unsupervised method for the three-dimensional reconstruction of multiple structural models from heterogeneous data. As a starting reference, our method employs an initial structure that does not account for any heterogeneity. Then, a multi-stage clustering is used to create multiple models representative of the heterogeneity within the sample. The multi-stage clustering combines an existing approach based on Multivariate Statistical Analysis to perform clustering within individual Euler angles, and a newly developed approach to sort out class averages from individual Euler angles into homogeneous groups. Structural models are computed from individual clusters. The whole data classification is further refined using an iterative multi-model projection-matching approach. We tested our method on one synthetic and three distinct experimental datasets. The tests include the cases where a macromolecular complex exhibits structural flexibility and cases where a molecule is found in ligand-bound and unbound states. We propose the use of our approach as an efficient way to reconstruct distinct multiple models from heterogeneous data.
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- Maxim Shatsky
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Namy O, Rousset JP. Specification of Standard Amino Acids by Stop Codons. RECODING: EXPANSION OF DECODING RULES ENRICHES GENE EXPRESSION 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89382-2_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Hetrick B, Lee K, Joseph S. Kinetics of stop codon recognition by release factor 1. Biochemistry 2009; 48:11178-84. [PMID: 19874047 DOI: 10.1021/bi901577d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recognition of stop codons by class I release factors is a fundamental step in the termination phase of protein synthesis. Since premature termination is costly to the cell, release factors have to efficiently discriminate between stop and sense codons. To understand the mechanism of discrimination between stop and sense codons, we developed a new, pre-steady state kinetic assay to monitor the interaction of RF1 with the ribosome. Our results show that RF1 associates with similar association rate constants with ribosomes programmed with stop or sense codons. However, dissociation of RF1 from sense codons is as much as 3 orders of magnitude faster than from stop codons. Interestingly, the affinity of RF1 for ribosomes programmed with different sense codons does not correlate with the defects in peptide release. Thus, discrimination against sense codons is achieved with both an increase in the dissociation rates and a decrease in the rate of peptide release. These results suggest that sense codons inhibit conformational changes necessary for RF1 to stably bind to the ribosome and catalyze peptide release.
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- Byron Hetrick
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0314, USA
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Trobro S, Åqvist J. Mechanism of the Translation Termination Reaction on the Ribosome. Biochemistry 2009; 48:11296-303. [DOI: 10.1021/bi9017297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Stefan Trobro
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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What recent ribosome structures have revealed about the mechanism of translation. Nature 2009; 461:1234-42. [DOI: 10.1038/nature08403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 533] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2009] [Accepted: 10/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Simonović M, Steitz TA. A structural view on the mechanism of the ribosome-catalyzed peptide bond formation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2009; 1789:612-23. [PMID: 19595805 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2009.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2009] [Revised: 06/23/2009] [Accepted: 06/25/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The ribosome is a large ribonucleoprotein particle that translates genetic information encoded in mRNA into specific proteins. Its highly conserved active site, the peptidyl-transferase center (PTC), is located on the large (50S) ribosomal subunit and is comprised solely of rRNA, which makes the ribosome the only natural ribozyme with polymerase activity. The last decade witnessed a rapid accumulation of atomic-resolution structural data on both ribosomal subunits as well as on the entire ribosome. This has allowed studies on the mechanism of peptide bond formation at a level of detail that surpasses that for the classical protein enzymes. A current understanding of the mechanism of the ribosome-catalyzed peptide bond formation is the focus of this review. Implications on the mechanism of peptide release are discussed as well.
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- Miljan Simonović
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, MBRB 1170, 900 S Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Andér M, Åqvist J. Does Glutamine Methylation Affect the Intrinsic Conformation of the Universally Conserved GGQ Motif in Ribosomal Release Factors? Biochemistry 2009; 48:3483-9. [DOI: 10.1021/bi900117r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Martin Andér
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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The faithful and rapid translation of genetic information into peptide sequences is an indispensable property of the ribosome. The mechanistic understanding of strategies used by the ribosome to achieve both speed and fidelity during translation results from nearly a half century of biochemical and structural studies. Emerging from these studies is the common theme that the ribosome uses local as well as remote conformational switches to govern induced-fit mechanisms that ensure accuracy in codon recognition during both tRNA selection and translation termination.
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Jiang L, Schaffitzel C, Bingel-Erlenmeyer R, Ban N, Korber P, Koning RI, de Geus DC, Plaisier JR, Abrahams JP. Recycling of Aborted Ribosomal 50S Subunit-Nascent Chain-tRNA Complexes by the Heat Shock Protein Hsp15. J Mol Biol 2009; 386:1357-67. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.10.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2008] [Revised: 09/19/2008] [Accepted: 10/26/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Crystal structure of a translation termination complex formed with release factor RF2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:19684-9. [PMID: 19064930 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810953105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We report the crystal structure of a translation termination complex formed by the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome bound with release factor RF2, in response to a UAA stop codon, solved at 3 A resolution. The backbone of helix alpha5 and the side chain of serine of the conserved SPF motif of RF2 recognize U1 and A2 of the stop codon, respectively. A3 is unstacked from the first 2 bases, contacting Thr-216 and Val-203 of RF2 and stacking on G530 of 16S rRNA. The structure of the RF2 complex supports our previous proposal that conformational changes in the ribosome in response to recognition of the stop codon stabilize rearrangement of the switch loop of the release factor, resulting in docking of the universally conserved GGQ motif in the PTC of the 50S subunit. As seen for the RF1 complex, the main-chain amide nitrogen of glutamine in the GGQ motif is positioned to contribute directly to catalysis of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis, consistent with mutational studies, which show that most side-chain substitutions of the conserved glutamine have little effect. We show that when the H-bonding capability of the main-chain N-H of the conserved glutamine is eliminated by substitution with proline, peptidyl-tRNA esterase activity is abolished, consistent with its proposed role in catalysis.
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Ivanova EV, Alkalaeva EZ, Birdsall B, Kolosov PM, Polshakov VI, Kisselev LL. Interface of the interaction of the middle domain of human translation termination factor eRF1 with eukaryotic ribosomes. Mol Biol 2008. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893308060162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Weixlbaumer A, Jin H, Neubauer C, Voorhees RM, Petry S, Kelley AC, Ramakrishnan V. Insights into translational termination from the structure of RF2 bound to the ribosome. Science 2008; 322:953-6. [PMID: 18988853 DOI: 10.1126/science.1164840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The termination of protein synthesis occurs through the specific recognition of a stop codon in the A site of the ribosome by a release factor (RF), which then catalyzes the hydrolysis of the nascent protein chain from the P-site transfer RNA. Here we present, at a resolution of 3.5 angstroms, the crystal structure of RF2 in complex with its cognate UGA stop codon in the 70S ribosome. The structure provides insight into how RF2 specifically recognizes the stop codon; it also suggests a model for the role of a universally conserved GGQ motif in the catalysis of peptide release.
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- Albert Weixlbaumer
- Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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Youngman EM, McDonald ME, Green R. Peptide release on the ribosome: mechanism and implications for translational control. Annu Rev Microbiol 2008; 62:353-73. [PMID: 18544041 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.61.080706.093323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Peptide release, the reaction that hydrolyzes a completed protein from the peptidyl-tRNA upon completion of translation, is catalyzed in the active site of the large subunit of the ribosome and requires a class I release factor protein. The ribosome and release factor protein cooperate to accomplish two tasks: recognition of the stop codon and catalysis of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis. Although many fundamental questions remain, substantial progress has been made in the past several years. This review summarizes those advances and presents current models for the mechanisms of stop codon specificity and catalysis of peptide release. Finally, we discuss how these views fit into a larger emerging theme in the translation field: the importance of induced fit and conformational changes for progression through the translation cycle.
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- Elaine M Youngman
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Liljas A. Biochemistry. Getting close to termination. Science 2008; 322:863-5. [PMID: 18988828 DOI: 10.1126/science.1166913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Anders Liljas
- Department of Molecular Biophysics, Lund University, Sweden.
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Simonović M, Steitz TA. Peptidyl-CCA deacylation on the ribosome promoted by induced fit and the O3'-hydroxyl group of A76 of the unacylated A-site tRNA. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2008; 14:2372-8. [PMID: 18818369 PMCID: PMC2578858 DOI: 10.1261/rna.1118908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The last step in ribosome-catalyzed protein synthesis is the hydrolytic release of the newly formed polypeptide from the P-site bound tRNA. Hydrolysis of the ester link of the peptidyl-tRNA is stimulated normally by the binding of release factors (RFs). However, an unacylated tRNA or just CCA binding to the ribosomal A site can also stimulate deacylation under some nonphysiological conditions. Although the sequence of events is well described by biochemical studies, the structural basis of the mechanism underlying this process is not well understood. Two new structures of the large ribosomal subunit of Haloarcula marismortui complexed with a peptidyl-tRNA analog in the P site and two oligonucleotide mimics of unacylated tRNA, CCA and CA, in the A site show that the binding of either CA or CCA induces a very similar conformational change in the peptidyl-transferase center as induced by aminoacyl-CCA. However, only CCA positions a water molecule appropriately to attack the carbonyl carbon of the peptidyl-tRNA and stabilizes the proper orientation of the ester link for hydrolysis. We, thus, conclude that both the ability of the O3'-hydroxyl group of the A-site A76 to position the water and the A-site CCA induced conformational change of the PTC are critical for the catalysis of the deacylation of the peptidyl-tRNA by CCA, and perhaps, an analogous mechanism is used by RFs.
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- Miljan Simonović
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8114, USA
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Flexible fitting of high-resolution x-ray structures into cryoelectron microscopy maps using biased molecular dynamics simulations. Biophys J 2008; 95:5692-705. [PMID: 18849406 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.139451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A methodology for flexible fitting of all-atom high-resolution structures into low-resolution cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps is presented. Flexibility of the modeled structure is simulated by classical molecular dynamics and an additional effective potential is introduced to enhance the fitting process. The additional potential is proportional to the correlation coefficient between the experimental cryo-EM map and a synthetic map generated for an all-atom structure being fitted to the map. The additional forces are calculated as a gradient of the correlation coefficient. During the molecular dynamics simulations under the additional forces, the molecule undergoes a conformational transition that maximizes the correlation coefficient, which results in a high-accuracy fit of all-atom structure into a cryo-EM map. Using five test proteins that exhibit structural rearrangement during their biological activity, we demonstrate performance of our method. We also test our method on the experimental cryo-EM of elongation factor G and show that the model obtained is comparable to previous studies. In addition, we show that overfitting can be avoided by assessing the quality of the fitted model in terms of correlation coefficient and secondary structure preservation.
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Laurberg M, Asahara H, Korostelev A, Zhu J, Trakhanov S, Noller HF. Structural basis for translation termination on the 70S ribosome. Nature 2008; 454:852-7. [PMID: 18596689 DOI: 10.1038/nature07115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2008] [Accepted: 05/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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At termination of protein synthesis, type I release factors promote hydrolysis of the peptidyl-transfer RNA linkage in response to recognition of a stop codon. Here we describe the crystal structure of the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome in complex with the release factor RF1, tRNA and a messenger RNA containing a UAA stop codon, at 3.2 A resolution. The stop codon is recognized in a pocket formed by conserved elements of RF1, including its PxT recognition motif, and 16S ribosomal RNA. The codon and the 30S subunit A site undergo an induced fit that results in stabilization of a conformation of RF1 that promotes its interaction with the peptidyl transferase centre. Unexpectedly, the main-chain amide group of Gln 230 in the universally conserved GGQ motif of the factor is positioned to contribute directly to peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis.
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- Martin Laurberg
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Shaikh TR, Trujillo R, LeBarron JS, Baxter WT, Frank J. Particle-verification for single-particle, reference-based reconstruction using multivariate data analysis and classification. J Struct Biol 2008; 164:41-8. [PMID: 18619547 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2008.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2008] [Revised: 05/29/2008] [Accepted: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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As collection of electron microscopy data for single-particle reconstruction becomes more efficient, due to electronic image capture, one of the principal limiting steps in a reconstruction remains particle-verification, which is especially costly in terms of user input. Recently, some algorithms have been developed to window particles automatically, but the resulting particle sets typically need to be verified manually. Here we describe a procedure to speed up verification of windowed particles using multivariate data analysis and classification. In this procedure, the particle set is subjected to multi-reference alignment before the verification. The aligned particles are first binned according to orientation and are binned further by K-means classification. Rather than selection of particles individually, an entire class of particles can be selected, with an option to remove outliers. Since particles in the same class present the same view, distinction between good and bad images becomes more straightforward. We have also developed a graphical interface, written in Python/Tkinter, to facilitate this implementation of particle-verification. For the demonstration of the particle-verification scheme presented here, electron micrographs of ribosomes are used.
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- Tanvir R Shaikh
- Wadsworth Center, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12201-0509, USA
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Petry S, Weixlbaumer A, Ramakrishnan V. The termination of translation. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2008; 18:70-7. [PMID: 18206363 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2007] [Revised: 11/21/2007] [Accepted: 11/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Recent results from cryoelectron microscopy, crystallography, and biochemical experiments have shed considerable light on the process by which protein synthesis is terminated when a stop codon is reached. However, a detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms will require higher-resolution structures of the various states involved.
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- Sabine Petry
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom
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Vorobjev YN, Kisselev LL. Modeling of the positioning of eRF1 and the mRNA stop codon explains the proximity of the eRF1 C domain to the stop codon in the ribosomal complex. Mol Biol 2008. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893308020179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Beringer M. Modulating the activity of the peptidyl transferase center of the ribosome. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2008; 14:795-801. [PMID: 18369182 PMCID: PMC2327356 DOI: 10.1261/rna.980308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The peptidyl transferase (PT) center of the ribosome catalyzes two nucleophilic reactions, peptide bond formation between aminoacylated tRNA substrates and, together with release factor, peptide release. Structure and function of the PT center are modulated by binding of aminoacyl-tRNA or release factor, thus providing the basis for the specificity of catalysis. Another way by which the function of the PT center is controlled is signaling from the peptide exit tunnel. The SecM nascent peptide induces ribosome stalling, presumably by inhibition of peptide bond formation. Similarly, the release factor-induced hydrolytic activity of the PT center can be suppressed by the TnaC nascent peptide contained in the exit tunnel. Thus, local and long-range conformational rearrangements can lead to changes in the reaction specificity and catalytic activity of the PT center.
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- Malte Beringer
- Institute of Physical Biochemistry, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58448 Witten, Germany.
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The ribosome is a dynamic machine that undergoes many conformational rearrangements during the initiation of protein synthesis. Significant differences exist between the process of protein synthesis initiation in eubacteria and eukaryotes. In particular, the initiation of eukaryotic protein synthesis requires roughly an order of magnitude more initiation factors to promote efficient mRNA recruitment and ribosomal recognition of the start codon than are needed for eubacterial initiation. The mechanisms by which these initiation factors promote ribosome conformational changes during stages of initiation have been studied using cross-linking, footprinting, site-directed probing, cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, fluorescence spectroscopy and single-molecule techniques. Here, we review how the results of these different approaches have begun to converge to yield a detailed molecular understanding of the dynamic motions that the eukaryotic ribosome cycles through during the initiation of protein synthesis.
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Žoldák G, Sedlák E, Wolfrum A, Musatov A, Fedunová D, Szkaradkiewicz K, Sprinzl M. Multidomain Initiation Factor 2 from Thermus thermophilus Consists of the Individual Autonomous Domains. Biochemistry 2008; 47:4992-5005. [DOI: 10.1021/bi702295g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gabriel Žoldák
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Šafárik University, Kośice, Slovakia, Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, and Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Šafárik University, Kośice, Slovakia, Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, and Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Šafárik University, Kośice, Slovakia, Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, and Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Šafárik University, Kośice, Slovakia, Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, and Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Šafárik University, Kośice, Slovakia, Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, and Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Šafárik University, Kośice, Slovakia, Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, and Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, P. J. Šafárik University, Kośice, Slovakia, Laboratorium für Biochemie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, and Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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Kutner J, Towpik J, Ginalski K, Boguta M. Mitochondrial release factor in yeast: interplay of functional domains. Curr Genet 2008; 53:185-92. [DOI: 10.1007/s00294-008-0177-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2007] [Revised: 01/10/2008] [Accepted: 01/11/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Youngman EM, He SL, Nikstad LJ, Green R. Stop codon recognition by release factors induces structural rearrangement of the ribosomal decoding center that is productive for peptide release. Mol Cell 2008; 28:533-43. [PMID: 18042450 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2007] [Revised: 08/28/2007] [Accepted: 09/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Peptide release on the ribosome is catalyzed in the large subunit peptidyl transferase center by release factors on recognition of stop codons in the small subunit decoding center. Here we examine the role of the decoding center in this process. Mutation of decoding center nucleotides or removal of 2'OH groups from the codon--deleterious in the related process of tRNA selection--has only mild effects on peptide release. The miscoding antibiotic paromomycin, which binds the decoding center and promotes the critical steps of tRNA selection, instead dramatically inhibits peptide release. Differences in the kinetic mechanism of paromomycin inhibition on stop and sense codons, paired with correlated structural changes monitored by chemical footprinting, suggest that recognition of stop codons by release factors induces specific structural rearrangements in the small subunit decoding center. We propose that, like other steps in translation, the specificity of peptide release is achieved through an induced-fit mechanism.
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- Elaine M Youngman
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Shaw JJ, Green R. Two distinct components of release factor function uncovered by nucleophile partitioning analysis. Mol Cell 2008; 28:458-67. [PMID: 17996709 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2007] [Revised: 08/10/2007] [Accepted: 09/07/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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During translation termination, release factor (RF) protein catalyzes a hydrolytic reaction in the large subunit peptidyl transferase center to release the finished polypeptide chain. While the mechanism of catalysis of peptide release remains obscure, important contributing factors have been identified, including conserved active-site nucleotides and a GGQ tripeptide motif in the RF. Here we describe pre-steady-state kinetic and nucleophile competition experiments to examine RF contributions to the rate and specificity of peptide release. We find that while unacylated tRNA stimulates release in a nondiscriminating manner, RF1 is very specific for water. Further analysis reveals that amino acid Q235 of the RF1 GGQ motif is critical for the observed specificity. These data lead to a model where RFs make two distinct contributions to catalysis--a relatively nonspecific activation of the catalytic center and specific selection of water as a nucleophile facilitated by Q235.
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- Jeffrey J Shaw
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Kononenko AV, Mitkevich VA, Dubovaya VI, Kolosov PM, Makarov AA, Kisselev LL. Role of the individual domains of translation termination factor eRF1 in GTP binding to eRF3. Proteins 2008; 70:388-93. [PMID: 17680691 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Eukaryotic translational termination is triggered by polypeptide release factors eRF1, eRF3, and one of the three stop codons at the ribosomal A-site. Isothermal titration calorimetry shows that (i) the separated MC, M, and C domains of human eRF1 bind to eRF3; (ii) GTP binding to eRF3 requires complex formation with either the MC or M + C domains; (iii) the M domain interacts with the N and C domains; (iv) the MC domain and Mg2+ induce GTPase activity of eRF3 in the ribosome. We suggest that GDP binding site of eRF3 acquires an ability to bind gamma-phosphate of GTP if altered by cooperative action of the M and C domains of eRF1. Thus, the stop-codon decoding is associated with the N domain of eRF1 while the GTPase activity of eRF3 is controlled by the MC domain of eRF1 demonstrating a substantial structural uncoupling of these two activities though functionally they are interrelated.
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- Artem V Kononenko
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Xiong Y. From electron microscopy to X-ray crystallography: molecular-replacement case studies. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA. SECTION D, BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2008; 64:76-82. [PMID: 18094470 PMCID: PMC2394795 DOI: 10.1107/s090744490705398x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2007] [Accepted: 10/29/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Multi-component molecular complexes are increasingly being tackled by structural biology, bringing X-ray crystallography into the purview of electron-microscopy (EM) studies. X-ray crystallography can utilize a low-resolution EM map for structure determination followed by phase extension to high resolution. Test studies have been conducted on five crystal structures of large molecular assemblies, in which EM maps are used as models for structure solution by molecular replacement (MR) using various standard MR packages such as AMoRe, MOLREP and Phaser. The results demonstrate that EM maps are viable models for molecular replacement. Possible difficulties in data analysis, such as the effects of the EM magnification error, and the effect of MR positional/rotational errors on phase extension are discussed.
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- Yong Xiong
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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