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Dunkle JA, Dunham CM. Mechanisms of mRNA frame maintenance and its subversion during translation of the genetic code. Biochimie 2015; 114:90-6. [PMID: 25708857 PMCID: PMC4458409 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2015.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Accepted: 02/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Important viral and cellular gene products are regulated by stop codon readthrough and mRNA frameshifting, processes whereby the ribosome detours from the reading frame defined by three nucleotide codons after initiation of translation. In the last few years, rapid progress has been made in mechanistically characterizing both processes and also revealing that trans-acting factors play important regulatory roles in frameshifting. Here, we review recent biophysical studies that bring new molecular insights to stop codon readthrough and frameshifting. Lastly, we consider whether there may be common mechanistic themes in -1 and +1 frameshifting based on recent X-ray crystal structures of +1 frameshift-prone tRNAs bound to the ribosome.
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- Jack A Dunkle
- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1510 Clifton Road NE, Suite G223, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, 1510 Clifton Road NE, Suite G223, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Maintenance of protein synthesis reading frame by EF-P and m(1)G37-tRNA. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7226. [PMID: 26009254 PMCID: PMC4445466 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2014] [Accepted: 04/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Maintaining the translational reading frame poses difficulty for the ribosome. Slippery mRNA sequences such as CC[C/U]-[C/U], read by isoacceptors of tRNA(Pro), are highly prone to +1 frameshift (+1FS) errors. Here we show that +1FS errors occur by two mechanisms, a slow mechanism when tRNA(Pro) is stalled in the P-site next to an empty A-site and a fast mechanism during translocation of tRNA(Pro) into the P-site. Suppression of +1FS errors requires the m(1)G37 methylation of tRNA(Pro) on the 3' side of the anticodon and the translation factor EF-P. Importantly, both m(1)G37 and EF-P show the strongest suppression effect when CC[C/U]-[C/U] are placed at the second codon of a reading frame. This work demonstrates that maintaining the reading frame immediately after the initiation of translation by the ribosome is an essential aspect of protein synthesis.
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Sample PJ, Kořený L, Paris Z, Gaston KW, Rubio MAT, Fleming IMC, Hinger S, Horáková E, Limbach PA, Lukeš J, Alfonzo JD. A common tRNA modification at an unusual location: the discovery of wyosine biosynthesis in mitochondria. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:4262-73. [PMID: 25845597 PMCID: PMC4417183 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2015] [Accepted: 03/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Establishment of the early genetic code likely required strategies to ensure translational accuracy and inevitably involved tRNA post-transcriptional modifications. One such modification, wybutosine/wyosine is crucial for translational fidelity in Archaea and Eukarya; yet it does not occur in Bacteria and has never been described in mitochondria. Here, we present genetic, molecular and mass spectromery data demonstrating the first example of wyosine in mitochondria, a situation thus far unique to kinetoplastids. We also show that these modifications are important for mitochondrial function, underscoring their biological significance. This work focuses on TyW1, the enzyme required for the most critical step of wyosine biosynthesis. Based on molecular phylogeny, we suggest that the kinetoplastids pathways evolved via gene duplication and acquisition of an FMN-binding domain now prevalent in TyW1 of most eukaryotes. These findings are discussed in the context of the extensive U-insertion RNA editing in trypanosome mitochondria, which may have provided selective pressure for maintenance of mitochondrial wyosine in this lineage.
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- Paul J Sample
- Department of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre and Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 37005 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic
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- Department of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre and Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 37005 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic
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- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre and Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 37005 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic Canadian Institute For Advanced Research, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z8, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Fagan CE, Maehigashi T, Dunkle JA, Miles SJ, Dunham CM. Structural insights into translational recoding by frameshift suppressor tRNASufJ. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2014; 20:1944-54. [PMID: 25352689 PMCID: PMC4238358 DOI: 10.1261/rna.046953.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
The three-nucleotide mRNA reading frame is tightly regulated during translation to ensure accurate protein expression. Translation errors that lead to aberrant protein production can result from the uncoupled movement of the tRNA in either the 5' or 3' direction on mRNA. Here, we report the biochemical and structural characterization of +1 frameshift suppressor tRNA(SufJ), a tRNA known to decode four, instead of three, nucleotides. Frameshift suppressor tRNA(SufJ) contains an insertion 5' to its anticodon, expanding the anticodon loop from seven to eight nucleotides. Our results indicate that the expansion of the anticodon loop of either ASL(SufJ) or tRNA(SufJ) does not affect its affinity for the A site of the ribosome. Structural analyses of both ASL(SufJ) and ASL(Thr) bound to the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome demonstrate both ASLs decode in the zero frame. Although the anticodon loop residues 34-37 are superimposable with canonical seven-nucleotide ASLs, the single C31.5 insertion between nucleotides 31 and 32 in ASL(SufJ) imposes a conformational change of the anticodon stem, that repositions and tilts the ASL toward the back of the A site. Further modeling analyses reveal that this tilting would cause a distortion in full-length A-site tRNA(SufJ) during tRNA selection and possibly impede gripping of the anticodon stem by 16S rRNA nucleotides in the P site. Together, these data implicate tRNA distortion as a major driver of noncanonical translation events such as frameshifting.
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MESH Headings
- Anticodon/genetics
- Anticodon/ultrastructure
- Crystallography, X-Ray
- Escherichia coli
- Genes, Suppressor
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Nucleotides/chemistry
- Nucleotides/genetics
- Protein Biosynthesis/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/ultrastructure
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/genetics
- RNA, Transfer/ultrastructure
- Ribosomes/genetics
- Thermus thermophilus/genetics
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- Crystal E Fagan
- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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