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Wild K, Becker MM, Kempf G, Sinning I. Structure, dynamics and interactions of large SRP variants. Biol Chem 2019; 401:63-80. [DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2019-0282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Co-translational protein targeting to membranes relies on the signal recognition particle (SRP) system consisting of a cytosolic ribonucleoprotein complex and its membrane-associated receptor. SRP recognizes N-terminal cleavable signals or signal anchor sequences, retards translation, and delivers ribosome-nascent chain complexes (RNCs) to vacant translocation channels in the target membrane. While our mechanistic understanding is well advanced for the small bacterial systems it lags behind for the large bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic SRP variants including an Alu and an S domain. Here we describe recent advances on structural and functional insights in domain architecture, particle dynamics and interplay with RNCs and translocon and GTP-dependent regulation of co-translational protein targeting stimulated by SRP RNA.
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- Klemens Wild
- Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) , INF 328 , D-69120 Heidelberg , Germany
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- Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) , INF 328 , D-69120 Heidelberg , Germany
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- Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) , INF 328 , D-69120 Heidelberg , Germany
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- Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) , INF 328 , D-69120 Heidelberg , Germany
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Grotwinkel JT, Wild K, Segnitz B, Sinning I. SRP RNA remodeling by SRP68 explains its role in protein translocation. Science 2014; 344:101-4. [PMID: 24700861 DOI: 10.1126/science.1249094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) is central to membrane protein targeting; SRP RNA is essential for SRP assembly, elongation arrest, and activation of SRP guanosine triphosphatases. In eukaryotes, SRP function relies on the SRP68-SRP72 heterodimer. We present the crystal structures of the RNA-binding domain of SRP68 (SRP68-RBD) alone and in complex with SRP RNA and SRP19. SRP68-RBD is a tetratricopeptide-like module that binds to a RNA three-way junction, bends the RNA, and inserts an α-helical arginine-rich motif (ARM) into the major groove. The ARM opens the conserved 5f RNA loop, which in ribosome-bound SRP establishes a contact to ribosomal RNA. Our data provide the structural basis for eukaryote-specific, SRP68-driven RNA remodeling required for protein translocation.
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- Jan Timo Grotwinkel
- Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH), INF 328, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Bibi E. Early targeting events during membrane protein biogenesis in Escherichia coli. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2010; 1808:841-50. [PMID: 20682283 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2010] [Revised: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 07/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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All living cells have co-translational pathways for targeting membrane proteins. Co-translation pathways for secretory proteins also exist but mostly in eukaryotes. Unlike secretory proteins, the biosynthetic pathway of most membrane proteins is conserved through evolution and these proteins are usually synthesized by membrane-bound ribosomes. Translation on the membrane requires that both the ribosomes and the mRNAs be properly localized. Theoretically, this can be achieved by several means. (i) The current view is that the targeting of cytosolic mRNA-ribosome-nascent chain complexes (RNCs) to the membrane is initiated by information in the emerging hydrophobic nascent polypeptides. (ii) The alternative model suggests that ribosomes may be targeted to the membrane also constitutively, whereas the appropriate mRNAs may be carried on small ribosomal subunits or targeted by other cellular factors to the membrane-bound ribosomes. Importantly, the available experimental data do not rule out the possibility that cells may also utilize both pathways in parallel. In any case, it is well documented that a major player in the targeting pathway is the signal recognition particle (SRP) system composed of the SRP and its receptor (SR). Although the functional core of the SRP system is evolutionarily conserved, its composition and biological practice come with different flavors in various organisms. This review is dedicated mainly to the Escherichia (E.) coli SRP, where the biochemical and structural properties of components of the SRP system have been relatively characterized, yielding essential information about various aspects of the pathway. In addition, several cellular interactions of the SRP and its receptor have been described in E. coli, providing insights into their spatial function. Collectively, these in vitro studies have led to the current view of the targeting pathway [see (i) above]. Interestingly, however, in vivo studies of the role of the SRP and its receptor, with emphasis on the temporal progress of the pathway, elicited an alternative hypothesis [see (ii) above]. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Protein translocation across or insertion into membranes.
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- Eitan Bibi
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
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Transient tether between the SRP RNA and SRP receptor ensures efficient cargo delivery during cotranslational protein targeting. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:7698-703. [PMID: 20385832 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002968107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Kinetic control of macromolecular interactions plays key roles in biological regulation. An example of such control occurs in cotranslational protein targeting by the signal recognition particle (SRP), during which the SRP RNA and the cargo both accelerate complex assembly between the SRP and SRP receptor FtsY 10(2)-fold. The molecular mechanism underlying these rate accelerations was unclear. Here we show that a highly conserved basic residue, Lys399, on the lateral surface of FtsY provides a novel RNA tetraloop receptor to mediate the SRP RNA- and cargo-induced acceleration of SRP-FtsY complex assembly. We propose that the SRP RNA, by using its tetraloop to interact with FtsY-Lys399, provides a transient tether to stabilize the early stage and transition state of complex formation; this accelerates the assembly of a stable SRP-FtsY complex and allows the loading of cargo to be efficiently coupled to its membrane delivery. The use of a transient tether to increase the lifetime of collisional intermediates and reduce the dimension of diffusional search represents a novel and effective mechanism to accelerate macromolecular interactions.
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Borden JR, Jones SW, Indurthi D, Chen Y, Papoutsakis ET. A genomic-library based discovery of a novel, possibly synthetic, acid-tolerance mechanism in Clostridium acetobutylicum involving non-coding RNAs and ribosomal RNA processing. Metab Eng 2010; 12:268-81. [PMID: 20060060 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2009.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2009] [Revised: 11/30/2009] [Accepted: 12/21/2009] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We generated a genomic library from sheared Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 DNA, whereby inserts can be expressed in both directions from the thiolase promoter, P(thl). Serial transfer of library-bearing C. acetobutylicum cultures exposed to increasing butyrate concentrations enriched for inserts containing fragments of rRNA genetic loci. The selected library inserts were placed so that antisense (to the rRNAs) non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) would be transcribed from P(thl). Different enriched inserts imparted similar butyrate-tolerance characteristics. A minimal tolerance fragment (RDNA7) was identified as the 16S-rRNA promoter region. Expressed on plasmid pRD7 off P(thl), RDNA7 can produce putative ncRNAs termed ncRNA(RD7). C. acetobutylicum 824(pRD7) showed superior resistance to butyrate and other carboxylic acids. Transcriptional analysis of butyrate stress identified 120 differentially expressed genes between 824(pRD7) and 824(pSOS95del). The few upregulated genes included the ffh gene of the putative signal recognition particle (SRP) system. Northern analysis of ncRNA(RD7) and corresponding antisense RNAs demonstrated multiple ncRNA(RD7) molecules in 824(pRD7). Several corresponding antisense RNA molecules were identified both in 824(pRD7) and 824(pSOS95del), but at much higher levels in 824(pRD7). Northern analysis of 16S rRNA expression suggested complex RDNA7-dependent rRNA processing. Our data suggest that by hybridizing against unprocessed rRNA precursors, ncRNA(RD7) alters rRNA processing, and these alterations result in acid tolerance, possibly through a mechanism involving the Ffh protein.
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- Jacob R Borden
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Buskiewicz IA, Jöckel J, Rodnina MV, Wintermeyer W. Conformation of the signal recognition particle in ribosomal targeting complexes. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2009; 15:44-54. [PMID: 19029307 PMCID: PMC2612770 DOI: 10.1261/rna.1285609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2008] [Accepted: 10/14/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The bacterial signal recognition particle (SRP) binds to ribosomes synthesizing inner membrane proteins and, by interaction with the SRP receptor, FtsY, targets them to the translocon at the membrane. Here we probe the conformation of SRP and SRP protein, Ffh, at different stages of targeting by measuring fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between fluorophores placed at various positions within SRP. Distances derived from FRET indicate that SRP binding to nontranslating ribosomes triggers a global conformational change of SRP that facilitates binding of the SRP receptor, FtsY. Binding of SRP to a signal-anchor sequence exposed on a ribosome-nascent chain complex (RNC) causes a further change of the SRP conformation, involving the flexible part of the Ffh(M) domain, which increases the affinity for FtsY of ribosome-bound SRP up to the affinity exhibited by the isolated NG domain of Ffh. This indicates that in the RNC-SRP complex the Ffh(NG) domain is fully exposed for binding FtsY to form the targeting complex. Binding of FtsY to the RNC-SRP complex results in a limited conformational change of SRP, which may initiate subsequent targeting steps.
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- Iwona A Buskiewicz
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58448 Witten, Germany
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RNA-RNA crosslinking provides a rapid means of obtaining evidence for the proximity of functional groups in structurally complex RNAs and ribonucleoproteins. Such evidence can be used to provide a physical context for interpreting structural information from other biochemical and biophysical methods and for the design of further experiments. The identification of crosslinks that accurately reflect the native conformation of the RNA of interest is strongly dependent on the position of the crosslinking agent, the conditions of the crosslinking reaction, and the method for mapping the crosslink position. Here, we provide an overview of protocols and experimental considerations for RNA-RNA crosslinking with the most commonly used long- and short-range photoaffinity reagents. Specifically, we describe the merits and strategies for random and site-specific incorporation of these reagents into RNA, the crosslinking reaction and isolation of crosslinked products, the mapping crosslinked sites, and assessment of the crosslinking data.
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- Michael E Harris
- Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University Schoolof Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Jaru-Ampornpan P, Chandrasekar S, Shan SO. Efficient interaction between two GTPases allows the chloroplast SRP pathway to bypass the requirement for an SRP RNA. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:2636-45. [PMID: 17475780 PMCID: PMC1924832 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-01-0037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2007] [Revised: 04/18/2007] [Accepted: 04/20/2007] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Cotranslational protein targeting to membranes is regulated by two GTPases in the signal recognition particle (SRP) and the SRP receptor; association between the two GTPases is slow and is accelerated 400-fold by the SRP RNA. Intriguingly, the otherwise universally conserved SRP RNA is missing in a novel chloroplast SRP pathway. We found that even in the absence of an SRP RNA, the chloroplast SRP and receptor GTPases can interact efficiently with one another; the kinetics of interaction between the chloroplast GTPases is 400-fold faster than their bacterial homologues, and matches the rate at which the bacterial SRP and receptor interact with the help of SRP RNA. Biochemical analyses further suggest that the chloroplast SRP receptor is pre-organized in a conformation that allows optimal interaction with its binding partner, so that conformational changes during complex formation are minimized. Our results highlight intriguing differences between the classical and chloroplast SRP and SRP receptor GTPases, and help explain how the chloroplast SRP pathway can mediate efficient targeting of proteins to the thylakoid membrane in the absence of the SRP RNA, which plays an indispensable role in all the other SRP pathways.
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- Peera Jaru-Ampornpan
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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Schaffitzel C, Oswald M, Berger I, Ishikawa T, Abrahams JP, Koerten HK, Koning RI, Ban N. Structure of the E. coli signal recognition particle bound to a translating ribosome. Nature 2006; 444:503-6. [PMID: 17086205 DOI: 10.1038/nature05182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2006] [Accepted: 08/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The prokaryotic signal recognition particle (SRP) targets membrane proteins into the inner membrane. It binds translating ribosomes and screens the emerging nascent chain for a hydrophobic signal sequence, such as the transmembrane helix of inner membrane proteins. If such a sequence emerges, the SRP binds tightly, allowing the SRP receptor to lock on. This assembly delivers the ribosome-nascent chain complex to the protein translocation machinery in the membrane. Using cryo-electron microscopy and single-particle reconstruction, we obtained a 16 A structure of the Escherichia coli SRP in complex with a translating E. coli ribosome containing a nascent chain with a transmembrane helix anchor. We also obtained structural information on the SRP bound to an empty E. coli ribosome. The latter might share characteristics with a scanning SRP complex, whereas the former represents the next step: the targeting complex ready for receptor binding. High-resolution structures of the bacterial ribosome and of the bacterial SRP components are available, and their fitting explains our electron microscopic density. The structures reveal the regions that are involved in complex formation, provide insight into the conformation of the SRP on the ribosome and indicate the conformational changes that accompany high-affinity SRP binding to ribosome nascent chain complexes upon recognition of the signal sequence.
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- Christiane Schaffitzel
- ETH Zurich, Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, HPK Building, Schafmattstrasse 20, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Mainprize IL, Beniac DR, Falkovskaia E, Cleverley RM, Gierasch LM, Ottensmeyer FP, Andrews DW. The structure of Escherichia coli signal recognition particle revealed by scanning transmission electron microscopy. Mol Biol Cell 2006; 17:5063-74. [PMID: 16987964 PMCID: PMC1679673 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-05-0384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Structural studies on various domains of the ribonucleoprotein signal recognition particle (SRP) have not converged on a single complete structure of bacterial SRP consistent with the biochemistry of the particle. We obtained a three-dimensional structure for Escherichia coli SRP by cryoscanning transmission electron microscopy and mapped the internal RNA by electron spectroscopic imaging. Crystallographic data were fit into the SRP reconstruction, and although the resulting model differed from previous models, they could be rationalized by movement through an interdomain linker of Ffh, the protein component of SRP. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer experiments determined interdomain distances that were consistent with our model of SRP. Docking our model onto the bacterial ribosome suggests a mechanism for signal recognition involving interdomain movement of Ffh into and out of the nascent chain exit site and suggests how SRP could interact and/or compete with the ribosome-bound chaperone, trigger factor, for a nascent chain during translation.
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- Iain L. Mainprize
- *Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton L8N 3Z5, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Winnipeg R3E 3R2, Canada
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom; and
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
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- Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto M5G 2M9, Canada
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- *Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton L8N 3Z5, Canada
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Gariani T, Samuelsson T, Sauer-Eriksson AE. Conformational variability of the GTPase domain of the signal recognition particle receptor FtsY. J Struct Biol 2005; 153:85-96. [PMID: 16343944 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2005.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2005] [Revised: 10/20/2005] [Accepted: 10/24/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The prokaryotic signal recognition particle Ffh and its receptor FtsY allow targeting of proteins into or across the plasma membrane. The targeting process is GTP dependent and the two proteins constitute a distinct GTPase family. The receptor FtsY is composed of A and NG domains where the NG's GTPase domain plays a critical role in the targeting process. In this study, we describe two X-ray structures determined independently of each other of the NG domain of FtsY from Mycoplasma mycoides (MmFtsY). The two structures are markedly different in three of the nucleotide-binding segments, GI (P-loop), GII, and GIII, making only one of the structures compatible with nucleotide binding. Interestingly, the two distinct conformations of the nucleotide-binding segments of MmFtsY are similar to the apo- and ADP-loaded forms of certain ATPases. The structure of the extended interface between the A and NG domains of MmFtsY provides new insights into the role of the A domain for phospholipid interaction.
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- Talal Gariani
- Umeå Centre for Molecular Pathogenesis, Umeå University, Sweden
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Gu SQ, Jöckel J, Beinker P, Warnecke J, Semenkov YP, Rodnina MV, Wintermeyer W. Conformation of 4.5S RNA in the signal recognition particle and on the 30S ribosomal subunit. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2005; 11:1374-84. [PMID: 16043501 PMCID: PMC1370821 DOI: 10.1261/rna.7219805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) from Escherichia coli consists of 4.5S RNA and protein Ffh. It is essential for targeting ribosomes that are translating integral membrane proteins to the translocation pore in the plasma membrane. Independently of Ffh, 4.5S RNA also interacts with elongation factor G (EF-G) and the 30S ribosomal subunit. Here we use a cross-linking approach to probe the conformation of 4.5S RNA in SRP and in the complex with the 30S ribosomal subunit and to map the binding site. The UV-activatable cross-linker p-azidophenacyl bromide (AzP) was attached to positions 1, 21, and 54 of wild-type or modified 4.5S RNA. In SRP, cross-links to Ffh were formed from AzP in all three positions in 4.5S RNA, indicating a strongly bent conformation in which the 5' end (position 1) and the tetraloop region (including position 54) of the molecule are close to one another and to Ffh. In ribosomal complexes of 4.5S RNA, AzP in both positions 1 and 54 formed cross-links to the 30S ribosomal subunit, independently of the presence of Ffh. The major cross-linking target on the ribosome was protein S7; minor cross-links were formed to S2, S18, and S21. There were no cross-links from 4.5S RNA to the 50S subunit, where the primary binding site of SRP is located close to the peptide exit. The functional role of 4.5S RNA binding to the 30S subunit is unclear, as the RNA had no effect on translation or tRNA translocation on the ribosome.
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- Shan-Qing Gu
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Stockumer Str. 10, 58448 Witten, Germany
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Aleksei Alekseevich Bogdanov. Mol Biol 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s11008-005-0078-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Buskiewicz I, Peske F, Wieden HJ, Gryczynski I, Rodnina MV, Wintermeyer W. Conformations of the Signal Recognition Particle Protein Ffh from Escherichia coli as Determined by FRET. J Mol Biol 2005; 351:417-30. [PMID: 16005894 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2005] [Revised: 06/06/2005] [Accepted: 06/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) initiates the co-translational targeting of proteins to the plasma membrane in bacteria by binding to the N-terminal signal sequence emerging from the translating ribosome. SRP in Escherichia coli is composed of one protein, Ffh, and 4.5S RNA. In the present work, we probe the structure of Ffh alone and in the complex with 4.5S RNA by measuring distances between different positions within Ffh and between Ffh and 4.5S RNA by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). According to the FRET distances, NG and M domains in free Ffh are in close contact, as in the A/A arrangement in the crystal structure of Ffh from Thermus aquaticus, in agreement with the formation of a crosslink between cysteine residues at two critical positions in the G and M domains. Upon Ffh binding to 4.5S RNA or a 61 nucleotide fragment comprising internal loops A-C, the G and M domains move apart to assume a more open conformation, as indicated by changes of FRET distances. The movement is smaller when Ffh binds to a 49 nucleotide fragment of 4.5S RNA comprising only internal loops A and B, i.e. lacking the binding site of the NG domain. The FRET results suggest that in the SRP complex 4.5S RNA is present in a bent, rather than extended, conformation. The domain rearrangement of Ffh that takes place upon formation of the SRP is probably important for subsequent steps of membrane targeting, including interactions with the translating ribosome and the SRP receptor.
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- Iwona Buskiewicz
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58448 Witten, Germany
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) directs integral membrane and secretory proteins to the cellular protein translocation machinery during translation. The SRP is an evolutionarily conserved RNA-protein complex whose activities are regulated by GTP hydrolysis. Recent structural investigations of SRP functional domains and interactions provide new insights into the mechanisms of SRP activity in all cells, leading toward a comprehensive understanding of protein trafficking by this elegant pathway.
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- Jennifer A Doudna
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94705, USA.
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Halic M, Becker T, Pool MR, Spahn CMT, Grassucci RA, Frank J, Beckmann R. Structure of the signal recognition particle interacting with the elongation-arrested ribosome. Nature 2004; 427:808-14. [PMID: 14985753 DOI: 10.1038/nature02342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 324] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2003] [Accepted: 01/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cotranslational translocation of proteins across or into membranes is a vital process in all kingdoms of life. It requires that the translating ribosome be targeted to the membrane by the signal recognition particle (SRP), an evolutionarily conserved ribonucleoprotein particle. SRP recognizes signal sequences of nascent protein chains emerging from the ribosome. Subsequent binding of SRP leads to a pause in peptide elongation and to the ribosome docking to the membrane-bound SRP receptor. Here we present the structure of a targeting complex consisting of mammalian SRP bound to an active 80S ribosome carrying a signal sequence. This structure, solved to 12 A by cryo-electron microscopy, enables us to generate a molecular model of SRP in its functional conformation. The model shows how the S domain of SRP contacts the large ribosomal subunit at the nascent chain exit site to bind the signal sequence, and that the Alu domain reaches into the elongation-factor-binding site of the ribosome, explaining its elongation arrest activity.
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- Mario Halic
- Institute of Biochemistry, Charité, University Medical School, Humboldt University of Berlin, Monbijoustrasse 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Egea PF, Shan SO, Napetschnig J, Savage DF, Walter P, Stroud RM. Substrate twinning activates the signal recognition particle and its receptor. Nature 2004; 427:215-21. [PMID: 14724630 DOI: 10.1038/nature02250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 247] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2003] [Accepted: 11/25/2003] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Signal sequences target proteins for secretion from cells or for integration into cell membranes. As nascent proteins emerge from the ribosome, signal sequences are recognized by the signal recognition particle (SRP), which subsequently associates with its receptor (SR). In this complex, the SRP and SR stimulate each other's GTPase activity, and GTP hydrolysis ensures unidirectional targeting of cargo through a translocation pore in the membrane. To define the mechanism of reciprocal activation, we determined the 1.9 A structure of the complex formed between these two GTPases. The two partners form a quasi-two-fold symmetrical heterodimer. Biochemical analysis supports the importance of the extensive interaction surface. Complex formation aligns the two GTP molecules in a symmetrical, composite active site, and the 3'OH groups are essential for association, reciprocal activation and catalysis. This unique circle of twinned interactions is severed twice on hydrolysis, leading to complex dissociation after cargo delivery.
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- Pascal F Egea
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, California 94143-2240, USA.
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Mikulík K. Structure and functional properties of prokaryotic small noncoding RNAs. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 2003; 48:443-68. [PMID: 14533476 DOI: 10.1007/bf02931326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Most biochemical, computational and genetic approaches to gene finding assume the Central Dogma and look for genes that make mRNA and have ORFs. These approaches essentially do not work for one class of genes--the noncoding RNA. In all living organisms RNA is involved in a number of essential cell processes. Functional analysis of genome sequences has largely ignored RNA genes and their structures. Different RNA species including rRNA, tRNA, mRNA and sRNA (small RNA) are important structural, transfer, informational, and regulatory molecules containing complex folded conformations that participate in recognition and catalytic processes. Noncoding RNAs play an number of important structural, catalytic and regulatory roles in the cell. The size of the sRNA genes ranges from 70 to 500 nucleotides. Several transcripts of these genes are processed by RNAases and their final products are smaller. The encoding genes are localized between two ORFs and do not overlap with ORFs on the complementary DNA strand. As aptamers, some sRNA bind small molecular components (metal ions, peptides and nucleotides). This review summarizes recent data on the functions of prokaryotic sRNAs and approaches to their identification.
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- K Mikulík
- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 142 20 Prague, Czechia.
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Ullers RS, Houben ENG, Raine A, ten Hagen-Jongman CM, Ehrenberg M, Brunner J, Oudega B, Harms N, Luirink J. Interplay of signal recognition particle and trigger factor at L23 near the nascent chain exit site on the Escherichia coli ribosome. J Cell Biol 2003; 161:679-84. [PMID: 12756233 PMCID: PMC2199365 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200302130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
As newly synthesized polypeptides emerge from the ribosome, they interact with chaperones and targeting factors that assist in folding and targeting to the proper location in the cell. In Escherichia coli, the chaperone trigger factor (TF) binds to nascent polypeptides early in biosynthesis facilitated by its affinity for the ribosomal proteins L23 and L29 that are situated around the nascent chain exit site on the ribosome. The targeting factor signal recognition particle (SRP) interacts specifically with the signal anchor (SA) sequence in nascent inner membrane proteins (IMPs). Here, we have used photocross-linking to map interactions of the SA sequence in a short, in vitro-synthesized, nascent IMP. Both TF and SRP were found to interact with the SA with partially overlapping binding specificity. In addition, extensive contacts with L23 and L29 were detected. Both purified TF and SRP could be cross-linked to L23 on nontranslating ribosomes with a competitive advantage for SRP. The results suggest a role for L23 in the targeting of IMPs as an attachment site for TF and SRP that is close to the emerging nascent chain.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ronald S Ullers
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Gu SQ, Peske F, Wieden HJ, Rodnina MV, Wintermeyer W. The signal recognition particle binds to protein L23 at the peptide exit of the Escherichia coli ribosome. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2003; 9:566-73. [PMID: 12702815 PMCID: PMC1370422 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2196403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2002] [Accepted: 02/10/2003] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
The signal recognition particle (SRP) from Escherichia coli, composed of Ffh protein and 4.5S RNA, mediates membrane targeting of translating ribosomes displaying a signal or signal-anchor sequence. SRP binds at the peptide exit of the large ribosomal subunit. Structural details of the interaction are not known. Here, the position of Ffh or SRP on the ribosome was probed by using site-specific UV-induced crosslinking by p-azidophenacyl bromide (AzP) attached to a number of cysteine residues engineered into surface positions of Ffh. Efficient crosslinking to vacant ribosomes took place from two positions (AzP17 and AzP25) in the N domain of Ffh, both with Ffh and SRP. Both AzP17 and AzP25 were predominantly crosslinked to ribosomal protein L23 that is located at the peptide exit of the 50S subunit. The SRP receptor, FtsY, did not change the crosslink pattern, whereas the presence of a nascent signal peptide on the ribosome resulted in a second crosslink between Ffh(AzP17) and protein L23, indicating that binding to the nascent signal peptide induced a slightly different arrangement of SRP on the ribosome. These results indicate a model of the topographical arrangement of SRP at the peptide exit of the 50S ribosomal subunit.
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- Shan-Qing Gu
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58448 Witten, Germany
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