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Biziaev N, Shuvalov A, Salman A, Egorova T, Shuvalova E, Alkalaeva E. The impact of mRNA poly(A) tail length on eukaryotic translation stages. Nucleic Acids Res 2024:gkae510. [PMID: 38874498 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 05/08/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
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The poly(A) tail plays an important role in maintaining mRNA stability and influences translation efficiency via binding with PABP. However, the impact of poly(A) tail length on mRNA translation remains incompletely understood. This study explores the effects of poly(A) tail length on human translation. We determined the translation rates in cell lysates using mRNAs with different poly(A) tails. Cap-dependent translation was stimulated by the poly(A) tail, however, it was largely independent of poly(A) tail length, with an exception observed in the case of the 75 nt poly(A) tail. Conversely, cap-independent translation displayed a positive correlation with poly(A) tail length. Examination of translation stages uncovered the dependence of initiation and termination on the presence of the poly(A) tail, but the efficiency of initiation remained unaffected by poly(A) tail extension. Further study unveiled that increased binding of eRFs to the ribosome with the poly(A) tail extension induced more efficient hydrolysis of peptidyl-tRNA. Building upon these findings, we propose a crucial role for the 75 nt poly(A) tail in orchestrating the formation of a double closed-loop mRNA structure within human cells which couples the initiation and termination phases of translation.
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- Nikita Biziaev
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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McGowan J, Kilias ES, Alacid E, Lipscombe J, Jenkins BH, Gharbi K, Kaithakottil GG, Macaulay IC, McTaggart S, Warring SD, Richards TA, Hall N, Swarbreck D. Identification of a non-canonical ciliate nuclear genetic code where UAA and UAG code for different amino acids. PLoS Genet 2023; 19:e1010913. [PMID: 37796765 PMCID: PMC10553269 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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The genetic code is one of the most highly conserved features across life. Only a few lineages have deviated from the "universal" genetic code. Amongst the few variants of the genetic code reported to date, the codons UAA and UAG virtually always have the same translation, suggesting that their evolution is coupled. Here, we report the genome and transcriptome sequencing of a novel uncultured ciliate, belonging to the Oligohymenophorea class, where the translation of the UAA and UAG stop codons have changed to specify different amino acids. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses revealed that UAA has been reassigned to encode lysine, while UAG has been reassigned to encode glutamic acid. We identified multiple suppressor tRNA genes with anticodons complementary to the reassigned codons. We show that the retained UGA stop codon is enriched in the 3'UTR immediately downstream of the coding region of genes, suggesting that there is functional drive to maintain tandem stop codons. Using a phylogenomics approach, we reconstructed the ciliate phylogeny and mapped genetic code changes, highlighting the remarkable number of independent genetic code changes within the Ciliophora group of protists. According to our knowledge, this is the first report of a genetic code variant where UAA and UAG encode different amino acids.
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- Jamie McGowan
- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Zhang X, Jiang J, Ma Z, Yang Y, Meng L, Xie F, Cui G, Yin X. Cloning of TaeRF1 gene from Caucasian clover and its functional analysis responding to low-temperature stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:968965. [PMID: 36605954 PMCID: PMC9809470 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.968965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Low temperature (LT) is an important threat to the normal growth of plants. In this study, based on the full-length transcriptome sequencing results, the cold resistance genes were cloned from Caucasian clover with strong cold resistance. We cloned the CDS of TaeRF1, which is 1311 bp in length and encodes 436 amino acids. The molecular weight of the protein is 48.97 kDa, which had no transmembrane structure, and its isoelectric point (pI) was 5.42. We predicted the structure of TaeRF1 and found 29 phosphorylation sites. Subcellular localization showed that TaeRF1 was localized and expressed in cell membrane and chloroplasts. The TaeRF1 gene was induced by stress due to cold, salt, alkali and drought and its expression level was higher in roots and it was more sensitive to LT. Analysis of transgenic A. thaliana plants before and after LT treatment showed that the TaeRF1 gene enhanced the removal of excess H2O2, and increased the activity of antioxidant enzymes, thus improving the plant's ability to resist stress. Additionally, the OE lines showed increased cold tolerance by upregulating the transcription level of cold-responsive genes (CBF1, CBF2, COR15B, COR47, ICE1, and RD29A). This study demonstrates that TaeRF1 is actively involved in the responses of plants to LT stress. We also provide a theoretical basis for breeding and a potential mechanism underlying the responses of Caucasian clover to abiotic stress.
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- *Correspondence: Guowen Cui, ; Xiujie Yin,
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- *Correspondence: Guowen Cui, ; Xiujie Yin,
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Shi N, Tong L, Lin H, Zheng Z, Zhang H, Dong L, Yang Y, Shen Y, Xia Q. Optimizing eRF1 to Enable the Genetic Encoding of Three Distinct Noncanonical Amino Acids in Mammalian Cells. Adv Biol (Weinh) 2022; 6:e2200092. [PMID: 35818694 DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202200092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Site-specific incorporation of distinct noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins via genetic code expansion in mammalian cells represents a new avenue for protein engineering. Reassigning three TAGs with the same ncAA in mammalian cells has previously been achieved using translational machinery. However, simultaneous recoding of three nonsense codons with distinct ncAAs in mammalian cells remains a challenge due to low incorporation efficiencies. Here, three optimized aaRS/tRNA pairs (i.e., the E. coli-derived tyrosyl (EcTyr)/tRNAUUA , E. coli-derived leucyl (EcLeu)/tRNACUA , and Methanosarcina mazei pyrrolysyl (MmPyl)/tRNAUCA pairs) are screened for ncAA incorporation. Furthermore, introduced combinations of eukaryotic release factor 1 (eRF1) mutants (E55R, E55D, N129D, and Y125F) significantly improve the encoding efficiency of the three premature stop codons' sites from 0.78% to 11.6%. Thus, site-specific incorporation of three distinct ncAAs into a single protein is achieved in this study. This work markedly expands the potential for multiple site-specific protein modifications within mammalian cells, thereby facilitating new in vivo applications.
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- Ningning Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs Department of Chemical Biology School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China
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Embree CM, Abu-Alhasan R, Singh G. Features and factors that dictate if terminating ribosomes cause or counteract nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:102592. [PMID: 36244451 PMCID: PMC9661723 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a quality control pathway in eukaryotes that continuously monitors mRNA transcripts to ensure truncated polypeptides are not produced. The expression of many normal mRNAs that encode full-length polypeptides is also regulated by this pathway. Such transcript surveillance by NMD is intimately linked to translation termination. When a ribosome terminates translation at a normal termination codon, NMD is not activated, and mRNA can undergo repeated rounds of translation. On the other hand, when translation termination is deemed abnormal, such as that on a premature termination codon, it leads to a series of poorly understood events involving the NMD pathway, which destabilizes the transcript. In this review, we summarize our current understanding of how the NMD machinery interfaces with the translation termination factors to initiate NMD. We also discuss a variety of cis-acting sequence contexts and trans-acting factors that can cause readthrough, ribosome reinitiation, or ribosome frameshifting at stop codons predicted to induce NMD. These alternative outcomes can lead to the ribosome translating downstream of such stop codons and hence the transcript escaping NMD. NMD escape via these mechanisms can have wide-ranging implications on human health, from being exploited by viruses to hijack host cell systems to being harnessed as potential therapeutic possibilities to treat genetic diseases.
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- Caleb M Embree
- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA.
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Multiplex base editing to convert TAG into TAA codons in the human genome. Nat Commun 2022; 13:4482. [PMID: 35918324 PMCID: PMC9345975 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31927-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Whole-genome recoding has been shown to enable nonstandard amino acids, biocontainment and viral resistance in bacteria. Here we take the first steps to extend this to human cells demonstrating exceptional base editing to convert TAG to TAA for 33 essential genes via a single transfection, and examine base-editing genome-wide (observing ~40 C-to-T off-target events in essential gene exons). We also introduce GRIT, a computational tool for recoding. This demonstrates the feasibility of recoding, and highly multiplex editing in mammalian cells. Whole-genome recoding has been shown to enable nonstandard amino acids, biocontainment and viral resistance in bacteria. Here the authors extend this to human cells using base editing to convert TAG to TAA for 33 essential genes via a single transfection followed by examining base-editing genome-wide.
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Biziaev N, Sokolova E, Yanvarev DV, Toropygin IY, Shuvalov A, Egorova T, Alkalaeva E. Recognition of 3' nucleotide context and stop codon readthrough are determined during mRNA translation elongation. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:102133. [PMID: 35700825 PMCID: PMC9272376 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The nucleotide context surrounding stop codons significantly affects the efficiency of translation termination. In eukaryotes, various 3′ contexts that are unfavorable for translation termination have been described; however, the exact molecular mechanism that mediates their effects remains unknown. In this study, we used a reconstituted mammalian translation system to examine the efficiency of stop codons in different contexts, including several previously described weak 3′ stop codon contexts. We developed an approach to estimate the level of stop codon readthrough in the absence of eukaryotic release factors (eRFs). In this system, the stop codon is recognized by the suppressor or near-cognate tRNAs. We observed that in the absence of eRFs, readthrough occurs in a 3′ nucleotide context-dependent manner, and the main factors determining readthrough efficiency were the type of stop codon and the sequence of the 3′ nucleotides. Moreover, the efficiency of translation termination in weak 3′ contexts was almost equal to that in the tested standard context. Therefore, the ability of eRFs to recognize stop codons and induce peptide release is not affected by mRNA context. We propose that ribosomes or other participants of the elongation cycle can independently recognize certain contexts and increase the readthrough of stop codons. Thus, the efficiency of translation termination is regulated by the 3′ nucleotide context following the stop codon and depends on the concentrations of eRFs and suppressor/near-cognate tRNAs.
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- Nikita Biziaev
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- Orekhovich Research Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, 119992, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia; Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia; Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, 117997, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia; Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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Shuvalov A, Shuvalova E, Biziaev N, Sokolova E, Evmenov K, Pustogarov N, Arnautova A, Matrosova V, Egorova T, Alkalaeva E. Nsp1 of SARS-CoV-2 stimulates host translation termination. RNA Biol 2021; 18:804-817. [PMID: 34793288 PMCID: PMC8782162 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2021.1999103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Nsp1 of SARS-CoV-2 regulates the translation of host and viral mRNAs in cells. Nsp1 inhibits host translation initiation by occluding the entry channel of the 40S ribosome subunit. The structural study of the Nsp1-ribosomal complexes reported post-termination 80S complex containing Nsp1, eRF1 and ABCE1. Considering the presence of Nsp1 in the post-termination 80S ribosomal complex, we hypothesized that Nsp1 may be involved in translation termination. Using a cell-free translation system and reconstituted in vitro translation system, we show that Nsp1 stimulates peptide release and formation of termination complexes. Detailed analysis of Nsp1 activity during translation termination stages reveals that Nsp1 facilitates stop codon recognition. We demonstrate that Nsp1 stimulation targets eRF1 and does not affect eRF3. Moreover, Nsp1 increases amount of the termination complexes at all three stop codons. The activity of Nsp1 in translation termination is provided by its N-terminal domain and the minimal required part of eRF1 is NM domain. We assume that the biological meaning of Nsp1 activity in translation termination is binding with the 80S ribosomes translating host mRNAs and remove them from the pool of the active ribosomes.
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- Alexey Shuvalov
- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Korostelev AA. Diversity and Similarity of Termination and Ribosome Rescue in Bacterial, Mitochondrial, and Cytoplasmic Translation. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2021; 86:1107-1121. [PMID: 34565314 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297921090066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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When a ribosome encounters the stop codon of an mRNA, it terminates translation, releases the newly made protein, and is recycled to initiate translation on a new mRNA. Termination is a highly dynamic process in which release factors (RF1 and RF2 in bacteria; eRF1•eRF3•GTP in eukaryotes) coordinate peptide release with large-scale molecular rearrangements of the ribosome. Ribosomes stalled on aberrant mRNAs are rescued and recycled by diverse bacterial, mitochondrial, or cytoplasmic quality control mechanisms. These are catalyzed by rescue factors with peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase activity (bacterial ArfA•RF2 and ArfB, mitochondrial ICT1 and mtRF-R, and cytoplasmic Vms1), that are distinct from each other and from release factors. Nevertheless, recent structural studies demonstrate a remarkable similarity between translation termination and ribosome rescue mechanisms. This review describes how these pathways rely on inherent ribosome dynamics, emphasizing the active role of the ribosome in all translation steps.
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- Andrei A Korostelev
- RNA Therapeutics Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
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Sokolova EE, Vlasov PK, Egorova TV, Shuvalov AV, Alkalaeva EZ. The Influence of A/G Composition of 3' Stop Codon Contexts on Translation Termination Efficiency in Eukaryotes. Mol Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893320050088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Nucleocytoplasmic Proteomic Analysis Uncovers eRF1 and Nonsense-Mediated Decay as Modifiers of ALS/FTD C9orf72 Toxicity. Neuron 2020; 106:90-107.e13. [PMID: 32059759 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2019] [Revised: 12/08/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72 (C9-HRE). While RNA and dipeptide repeats produced by C9-HRE disrupt nucleocytoplasmic transport, the proteins that become redistributed remain unknown. Here, we utilized subcellular fractionation coupled with tandem mass spectrometry and identified 126 proteins, enriched for protein translation and RNA metabolism pathways, which collectively drive a shift toward a more cytosolic proteome in C9-HRE cells. Among these was eRF1, which regulates translation termination and nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). eRF1 accumulates within elaborate nuclear envelope invaginations in patient induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) neurons and postmortem tissue and mediates a protective shift from protein translation to NMD-dependent mRNA degradation. Overexpression of eRF1 and the NMD driver UPF1 ameliorate C9-HRE toxicity in vivo. Our findings provide a resource for proteome-wide nucleocytoplasmic alterations across neurodegeneration-associated repeat expansion mutations and highlight eRF1 and NMD as therapeutic targets in C9orf72-associated ALS and/or FTD.
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Yang Q, Yu CH, Zhao F, Dang Y, Wu C, Xie P, Sachs MS, Liu Y. eRF1 mediates codon usage effects on mRNA translation efficiency through premature termination at rare codons. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:9243-9258. [PMID: 31410471 PMCID: PMC6755126 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Codon usage bias is a universal feature of eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes and plays an important role in regulating gene expression levels. A major role of codon usage is thought to regulate protein expression levels by affecting mRNA translation efficiency, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. By analyzing ribosome profiling results, here we showed that codon usage regulates translation elongation rate and that rare codons are decoded more slowly than common codons in all codon families in Neurospora. Rare codons resulted in ribosome stalling in manners both dependent and independent of protein sequence context and caused premature translation termination. This mechanism was shown to be conserved in Drosophila cells. In both Neurospora and Drosophila cells, codon usage plays an important role in regulating mRNA translation efficiency. We found that the rare codon-dependent premature termination is mediated by the translation termination factor eRF1, which recognizes ribosomes stalled on rare sense codons. Silencing of eRF1 expression resulted in codon usage-dependent changes in protein expression. Together, these results establish a mechanism for how codon usage regulates mRNA translation efficiency.
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- Qian Yang
- Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.,State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources and Center for Life Science, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, China
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- Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3258, USA
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.,Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and Cambridge-Suda Genomic Resource Center, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3258, USA
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- Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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Zinoviev A, Kuroha K, Pestova TV, Hellen CUT. Two classes of EF1-family translational GTPases encoded by giant viruses. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:5761-5776. [PMID: 31216040 PMCID: PMC6582330 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Giant viruses have extraordinarily large dsDNA genomes, and exceptionally, they encode various components of the translation apparatus, including tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and translation factors. Here, we focused on the elongation factor 1 (EF1) family of viral translational GTPases (trGTPases), using computational and functional approaches to shed light on their functions. Multiple sequence alignment indicated that these trGTPases clustered into two groups epitomized by members of Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae, respectively. trGTPases in the first group were more closely related to GTP-binding protein 1 (GTPBP1), whereas trGTPases in the second group were closer to eEF1A, eRF3 and Hbs1. Functional characterization of representative GTPBP1-like trGTPases (encoded by Hirudovirus, Catovirus and Moumouvirus) using in vitro reconstitution revealed that they possess eEF1A-like activity and can deliver cognate aa-tRNAs to the ribosomal A site during translation elongation. By contrast, representative eEF1A/eRF3/Hbs1-like viral trGTPases, encoded by Marseillevirus and Lausannevirus, have eRF3-like termination activity and stimulate peptide release by eRF1. Our analysis identified specific aspects of the functioning of these viral trGTPases with eRF1 of human, amoebal and Marseillevirus origin.
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- Alexandra Zinoviev
- Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, MSC 44, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, MSC 44, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, MSC 44, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, MSC 44, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
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Lind C, Esguerra M, Jespers W, Satpati P, Gutierrez-de-Terán H, Åqvist J. Free energy calculations of RNA interactions. Methods 2019; 162-163:85-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 02/01/2019] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Garcia A, Roy G, Kiefer C, Wilson S, Marelli M. qPCR assays to quantitate tRNApyl and pylRS expression in engineered cell lines. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0216356. [PMID: 31071154 PMCID: PMC6508675 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Non-natural amino acids (nnAA) contain unique functional moieties that greatly expand the available tool set for protein engineering. But incorporation of nnAAs requires the function of an orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair. Stable cell lines expressing these components have been shown capable of producing gram per liter levels of antibodies with nnAAs. However, little has been reported on the genetic makeup of these cells. To gain a better understanding of the minimal requirements for efficient nnAA incorporation we developed qPCR methods for the quantitation of the key components. Here we describe the development of qPCR assays for the quantification of tRNApyl and pylRS. qPCR was chosen because it provides a large dynamic range, has high specificity for its target, and is a non-radioactive method used routinely for cell line characterization. Designing assays for tRNAs present challenges due to their short length (~72 nucleotides) and high secondary structure. These tRNA assays have a ≥ 5 log dynamic range with the tRNApyl assays being able to discern the mature and unprocessed forms of the tRNApyl. Cell line analysis showed tRNApyl was expressed at higher levels than the CHO-K1 endogenous Met and Phe tRNAs and that >88% of tRNApyl was the mature form.
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- Andrew Garcia
- Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States of America
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Ivanov A, Shuvalova E, Egorova T, Shuvalov A, Sokolova E, Bizyaev N, Shatsky I, Terenin I, Alkalaeva E. Polyadenylate-binding protein-interacting proteins PAIP1 and PAIP2 affect translation termination. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:8630-8639. [PMID: 30992367 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.006856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2018] [Revised: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Polyadenylate-binding protein (PABP) stimulates translation termination via interaction of its C-terminal domain with eukaryotic polypeptide chain release factor, eRF3. Additionally, two other proteins, poly(A)-binding protein-interacting proteins 1 and 2 (PAIP1 and PAIP2), bind the same domain of PABP and regulate its translation-related activity. To study the biochemistry of eRF3 and PAIP1/2 competition for PABP binding, we quantified the effects of PAIPs on translation termination in the presence or absence of PABP. Our results demonstrated that both PAIP1 and PAIP2 prevented translation termination at the premature termination codon, by controlling PABP activity. Moreover, PAIP1 and PAIP2 inhibited the activity of free PABP on translation termination in vitro However, after binding the poly(A) tail, PABP became insensitive to suppression by PAIPs and efficiently activated translation termination in the presence of eRF3a. Additionally, we revealed that PAIP1 binds eRF3 in solution, which stabilizes the post-termination complex. These results indicated that PAIP1 and PAIP2 participate in translation termination and are important regulators of readthrough at the premature termination codon.
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- Alexandr Ivanov
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia; Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia; Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Moscow 119146, Russia.
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia.
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Wada M, Ito K. Misdecoding of rare CGA codon by translation termination factors, eRF1/eRF3, suggests novel class of ribosome rescue pathway in S. cerevisiae. FEBS J 2019; 286:788-802. [PMID: 30471181 PMCID: PMC7379694 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Revised: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The CGA arginine codon is a rare codon in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Thus, full-length mature protein synthesis from reporter genes with internal CGA codon repeats are markedly reduced, and the reporters, instead, produce short-sized polypeptides via an unknown mechanism. Considering the product size and similar properties between CGA sense and UGA stop codons, we hypothesized that eukaryote polypeptide-chain release factor complex eRF1/eRF3 catalyses polypeptide release at CGA repeats. Herein, we performed a series of analyses and report that the CGA codon can be, to a certain extent, decoded as a stop codon in yeast. This also raises an intriguing possibility that translation termination factors eRF1/eRF3 rescue ribosomes stalled at CGA codons, releasing premature polypeptides, and competing with canonical tRNAICG to the CGA codon. Our results suggest an alternative ribosomal rescue pathway in eukaryotes. The present results suggest that misdecoding of low efficient codons may play a novel role in global translation regulation in S. cerevisiae.
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- Miki Wada
- Department of Computational Biology and Medical SciencesGraduate School of Frontier SciencesThe University of TokyoKashiwa‐cityJapan
- Technical officeThe Institute of Medical ScienceThe University of TokyoMinato‐kuJapan
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical SciencesGraduate School of Frontier SciencesThe University of TokyoKashiwa‐cityJapan
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Hellen CUT. Translation Termination and Ribosome Recycling in Eukaryotes. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2018; 10:cshperspect.a032656. [PMID: 29735640 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a032656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Termination of mRNA translation occurs when a stop codon enters the A site of the ribosome, and in eukaryotes is mediated by release factors eRF1 and eRF3, which form a ternary eRF1/eRF3-guanosine triphosphate (GTP) complex. eRF1 recognizes the stop codon, and after hydrolysis of GTP by eRF3, mediates release of the nascent peptide. The post-termination complex is then disassembled, enabling its constituents to participate in further rounds of translation. Ribosome recycling involves splitting of the 80S ribosome by the ATP-binding cassette protein ABCE1 to release the 60S subunit. Subsequent dissociation of deacylated transfer RNA (tRNA) and messenger RNA (mRNA) from the 40S subunit may be mediated by initiation factors (priming the 40S subunit for initiation), by ligatin (eIF2D) or by density-regulated protein (DENR) and multiple copies in T-cell lymphoma-1 (MCT1). These events may be subverted by suppression of termination (yielding carboxy-terminally extended read-through polypeptides) or by interruption of recycling, leading to reinitiation of translation near the stop codon.
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- Christopher U T Hellen
- Department of Cell Biology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, New York, New York 11203
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Svidritskiy E, Demo G, Korostelev AA. Mechanism of premature translation termination on a sense codon. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:12472-12479. [PMID: 29941456 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.aw118.003232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Accurate translation termination by release factors (RFs) is critical for the integrity of cellular proteomes. Premature termination on sense codons, for example, results in truncated proteins, whose accumulation could be detrimental to the cell. Nevertheless, some sense codons are prone to triggering premature termination, but the structural basis for this is unclear. To investigate premature termination, we determined a cryo-EM structure of the Escherichia coli 70S ribosome bound with RF1 in response to a UAU (Tyr) sense codon. The structure reveals that RF1 recognizes a UAU codon similarly to a UAG stop codon, suggesting that sense codons induce premature termination because they structurally mimic a stop codon. Hydrophobic interaction between the nucleobase of U3 (the third position of the UAU codon) and conserved Ile-196 in RF1 is important for misreading the UAU codon. Analyses of RNA binding in ribonucleoprotein complexes or by amino acids reveal that Ile-U packing is a frequent protein-RNA-binding motif with key functional implications. We discuss parallels with eukaryotic translation termination by the release factor eRF1.
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- Egor Svidritskiy
- From the RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605
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- From the RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605
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- From the RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605
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Valášek LS, Zeman J, Wagner S, Beznosková P, Pavlíková Z, Mohammad MP, Hronová V, Herrmannová A, Hashem Y, Gunišová S. Embraced by eIF3: structural and functional insights into the roles of eIF3 across the translation cycle. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:10948-10968. [PMID: 28981723 PMCID: PMC5737393 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Protein synthesis is mediated via numerous molecules including the ribosome, mRNA, tRNAs, as well as translation initiation, elongation and release factors. Some of these factors play several roles throughout the entire process to ensure proper assembly of the preinitiation complex on the right mRNA, accurate selection of the initiation codon, errorless production of the encoded polypeptide and its proper termination. Perhaps, the most intriguing of these multitasking factors is the eukaryotic initiation factor eIF3. Recent evidence strongly suggests that this factor, which coordinates the progress of most of the initiation steps, does not come off the initiation complex upon subunit joining, but instead it remains bound to 80S ribosomes and gradually falls off during the first few elongation cycles to: (1) promote resumption of scanning on the same mRNA molecule for reinitiation downstream—in case of translation of upstream ORFs short enough to preserve eIF3 bound; or (2) come back during termination on long ORFs to fine tune its fidelity or, if signaled, promote programmed stop codon readthrough. Here, we unite recent structural views of the eIF3–40S complex and discus all known eIF3 roles to provide a broad picture of the eIF3’s impact on translational control in eukaryotic cells.
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- Leoš Shivaya Valášek
- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN UPR9002, Université de Strasbourg, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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Termination of protein synthesis on the ribosome requires that mRNA stop codons are recognized with high fidelity. This is achieved by specific release factor proteins that are very different in bacteria and eukaryotes. Hence, while there are two release factors with overlapping specificity in bacteria, the single omnipotent eRF1 release factor in eukaryotes is able to read all three stop codons. This is particularly remarkable as it is able to select three out of four combinations of purine bases in the last two codon positions. With recently determined 3D structures of eukaryotic termination complexes, it has become possible to explore the origin of eRF1 specificity by computer simulations. Here, we report molecular dynamics free energy calculations on these termination complexes, where relative eRF1 binding free energies to different cognate and near-cognate codons are evaluated. The simulations show a high and uniform discrimination against the near-cognate codons, that differ from the cognate ones by a single nucleotide, and reveal the structural mechanisms behind the precise decoding by eRF1. The eukaryotic release factor eRF1 is able to recognize the three stop codons UAA, UAG and UGA with high accuracy, while discriminating against near-cognate codons. Here the authors use molecular dynamic simulation to provide insight into the molecular basis behind the remarkable codon specificity of eRF1.
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Mikhailova T, Shuvalova E, Ivanov A, Susorov D, Shuvalov A, Kolosov PM, Alkalaeva E. RNA helicase DDX19 stabilizes ribosomal elongation and termination complexes. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:1307-1318. [PMID: 28180304 PMCID: PMC5605241 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2016] [Revised: 11/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The human DEAD-box RNA-helicase DDX19 functions in mRNA export through the nuclear pore complex. The yeast homolog of this protein, Dbp5, has been reported to participate in translation termination. Using a reconstituted mammalian in vitro translation system, we show that the human protein DDX19 is also important for translation termination. It is associated with the fraction of translating ribosomes. We show that DDX19 interacts with pre-termination complexes (preTCs) in a nucleotide-dependent manner. Furthermore, DDX19 increases the efficiency of termination complex (TC) formation and the peptide release in the presence of eukaryotic release factors. Using the eRF1(AGQ) mutant protein or a non-hydrolysable analog of GTP to inhibit subsequent peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis, we reveal that the activation of translation termination by DDX19 occurs during the stop codon recognition. This activation is a result of DDX19 binding to preTC and a concomitant stabilization of terminating ribosomes. Moreover, we show that DDX19 stabilizes ribosome complexes with translation elongation factors eEF1 and eEF2. Taken together, our findings reveal that the human RNA helicase DDX19 actively participates in protein biosynthesis.
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- Tatiana Mikhailova
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Kumar A, Basu D, Satpati P. Structure-Based Energetics of Stop Codon Recognition by Eukaryotic Release Factor. J Chem Inf Model 2017; 57:2321-2328. [PMID: 28825483 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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In translation termination, the eukaryotic release factor (eRF1) recognizes mRNA stop codons (UAA, UAG, or UGA) in a ribosomal A site and triggers release of the nascent polypeptide chain from P-site tRNA. eRF1 is highly selective for U in the first position and a combination of purines (except two consecutive guanines, i.e., GG) in the second and third positions. Eukaryotes decode all three stop codons with a single release factor eRF1, instead of two (RF1 and RF2), in bacteria. Furthermore, unlike bacterial RF1/RF2, eRF1 stabilizes the compact U-turn mRNA configuration in the ribosomal A site by accommodating four nucleotides instead of three. Despite the available cryo-EM structures (resolution ∼3.5-3.8 Å), the energetic principle for eRF1 selectivity toward a stop codon remains a fundamentally unsolved problem. Using cryo-EM structures of eukaryotic translation termination complexes as templates, we carried out molecular dynamics free energy simulations of cognate and near-cognate complexes to quantitatively address the energetics of stop codon recognition by eRF1. Our results suggest that eRF1 has a higher discriminatory power against sense codons, compared to that reported earlier for RF1/RF2. The compact mRNA formed specific intra-mRNA interactions, which itself contributed to stop codon specificity. Furthermore, the specificity is enhanced by the loss of protein-mRNA interactions and, most importantly, by desolvation of the incorrect codons in the near-cognate complexes. Our work provides a clue to how eRF1 discriminates between cognate and near-cognate codons during protein synthesis.
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- Amit Kumar
- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati , Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati , Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati , Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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Zhang Z, Xu H, Si L, Chen Y, Zhang B, Wang Y, Wu Y, Zhou X, Zhang L, Zhou D. Construction of an inducible stable cell line for efficient incorporation of unnatural amino acids in mammalian cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 489:490-496. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.05.178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/30/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Alkalaeva E, Mikhailova T. Reassigning stop codons via translation termination: How a few eukaryotes broke the dogma. Bioessays 2016; 39. [PMID: 28009453 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201600213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The genetic code determines how amino acids are encoded within mRNA. It is universal among the vast majority of organisms, although several exceptions are known. Variant genetic codes are found in ciliates, mitochondria, and numerous other organisms. All revealed genetic codes (standard and variant) have at least one codon encoding a translation stop signal. However, recently two new genetic codes with a reassignment of all three stop codons were revealed in studies examining the protozoa transcriptomes. Here, we discuss this finding and the recent studies of variant genetic codes in eukaryotes. We consider the possible molecular mechanisms allowing the use of certain codons as sense and stop signals simultaneously. The results obtained by studying these amazing organisms represent a new and exciting insight into the mechanism of stop codon decoding in eukaryotes. Also see the video abstract here.
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- Elena Alkalaeva
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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O'Connor PBF, Andreev DE, Baranov PV. Comparative survey of the relative impact of mRNA features on local ribosome profiling read density. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12915. [PMID: 27698342 PMCID: PMC5059445 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq), a promising technology for exploring ribosome decoding rates, is characterized by the presence of infrequent high peaks in ribosome footprint density and by long alignment gaps. Here, to reduce the impact of data heterogeneity we introduce a simple normalization method, Ribo-seq Unit Step Transformation (RUST). RUST is robust and outperforms other normalization techniques in the presence of heterogeneous noise. We illustrate how RUST can be used for identifying mRNA sequence features that affect ribosome footprint densities globally. We show that a few parameters extracted with RUST are sufficient for predicting experimental densities with high accuracy. Importantly the application of RUST to 30 publicly available Ribo-seq data sets revealed a substantial variation in sequence determinants of ribosome footprint frequencies, questioning the reliability of Ribo-seq as an accurate representation of local ribosome densities without prior quality control. This emphasizes our incomplete understanding of how protocol parameters affect ribosome footprint densities. Ribosome profiling data can suffer from uneven coverage which hampers estimation of elongation rates. Connor et al. present an enhanced data smoothing method for Ribo-seq data and highlight significant variability in sequence determinants of ribosome density in publicly available data sets.
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Hou CY, Lee WC, Chou HC, Chen AP, Chou SJ, Chen HM. Global Analysis of Truncated RNA Ends Reveals New Insights into Ribosome Stalling in Plants. THE PLANT CELL 2016; 28:2398-2416. [PMID: 27742800 PMCID: PMC5134977 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Revised: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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High-throughput approaches for profiling the 5' ends of RNA degradation intermediates on a genome-wide scale are frequently applied to analyze and validate cleavage sites guided by microRNAs (miRNAs). However, the complexity of the RNA degradome other than miRNA targets is currently largely uncharacterized, and this limits the application of RNA degradome studies. We conducted a global analysis of 5'-truncated mRNA ends that mapped to coding sequences (CDSs) of Arabidopsis thaliana, rice (Oryza sativa), and soybean (Glycine max). Based on this analysis, we provide multiple lines of evidence to show that the plant RNA degradome contains in vivo ribosome-protected mRNA fragments. We observed a 3-nucleotide periodicity in the position of free 5' RNA ends and a bias toward the translational frame. By examining conserved peptide upstream open reading frames (uORFs) of Arabidopsis and rice, we found a predominance of 5' termini of RNA degradation intermediates that were separated by a length equal to a ribosome-protected mRNA fragment. Through the analysis of RNA degradome data, we discovered uORFs and CDS regions potentially associated with stacked ribosomes in Arabidopsis. Furthermore, our analysis of RNA degradome data suggested that the binding of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE7 to a noncleavable target site of miR390 might directly hinder ribosome movement. This work demonstrates an alternative use of RNA degradome data in the study of ribosome stalling.
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- Cheng-Yu Hou
- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
- Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Ivanov A, Mikhailova T, Eliseev B, Yeramala L, Sokolova E, Susorov D, Shuvalov A, Schaffitzel C, Alkalaeva E. PABP enhances release factor recruitment and stop codon recognition during translation termination. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:7766-76. [PMID: 27418677 PMCID: PMC5027505 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Accepted: 07/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) is a major component of the messenger RNA–protein complex. PABP is able to bind the poly(A) tail of mRNA, as well as translation initiation factor 4G and eukaryotic release factor 3a (eRF3a). PABP has been found to stimulate translation initiation and to inhibit nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Using a reconstituted mammalian in vitro translation system, we show that PABP directly stimulates translation termination. PABP increases the efficiency of translation termination by recruitment of eRF3a and eRF1 to the ribosome. PABP's function in translation termination depends on its C-terminal domain and its interaction with the N-terminus of eRF3a. Interestingly, we discover that full-length eRF3a exerts a different mode of function compared to its truncated form eRF3c, which lacks the N-terminal domain. Pre-association of eRF3a, but not of eRF3c, with pre-termination complexes (preTCs) significantly increases the efficiency of peptidyl–tRNA hydrolysis by eRF1. This implicates new, additional interactions of full-length eRF3a with the ribosomal preTC. Based on our findings, we suggest that PABP enhances the productive binding of the eRF1–eRF3 complex to the ribosome, via interactions with the N-terminal domain of eRF3a which itself has an active role in translation termination.
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- Alexandr Ivanov
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Trotta E. Selective forces and mutational biases drive stop codon usage in the human genome: a comparison with sense codon usage. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:366. [PMID: 27188984 PMCID: PMC4869280 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2692-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The three stop codons UAA, UAG, and UGA signal the termination of mRNA translation. As a result of a mechanism that is not adequately understood, they are normally used with unequal frequencies. RESULTS In this work, we showed that selective forces and mutational biases drive stop codon usage in the human genome. We found that, in respect to sense codons, stop codon usage was affected by stronger selective forces but was less influenced by neutral mutational biases. UGA is the most frequent termination codon in human genome. However, UAA was the preferred stop codon in genes with high breadth of expression, high level of expression, AT-rich coding sequences, housekeeping functions, and in gene ontology categories with the largest deviation from expected stop codon usage. Selective forces associated with the breadth and the level of expression favoured AT-rich sequences in the mRNA region including the stop site and its proximal 3'-UTR, but acted with scarce effects on sense codons, generating two regions, upstream and downstream of the stop codon, with strongly different base composition. By favouring low levels of GC-content, selection promoted labile local secondary structures at the stop site and its proximal 3'-UTR. The compositional and structural context favoured by selection was surprisingly emphasized in the class of ribosomal proteins and was consistent with sequence elements that increase the efficiency of translational termination. Stop codons were also heterogeneously distributed among chromosomes by a mechanism that was strongly correlated with the GC-content of coding sequences. CONCLUSIONS In human genome, the nucleotide composition and the thermodynamic stability of stop codon site and its proximal 3'-UTR are correlated with the GC-content of coding sequences and with the breadth and the level of gene expression. In highly expressed genes stop codon usage is compositionally and structurally consistent with highly efficient translation termination signals.
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- Edoardo Trotta
- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, 00133, Italy.
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Bulygin KN, Bartuli YS, Malygin AA, Graifer DM, Frolova LY, Karpova GG. Chemical footprinting reveals conformational changes of 18S and 28S rRNAs at different steps of translation termination on the human ribosome. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2016; 22:278-289. [PMID: 26655225 PMCID: PMC4712677 DOI: 10.1261/rna.053801.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Translation termination in eukaryotes is mediated by release factors: eRF1, which is responsible for stop codon recognition and peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis, and GTPase eRF3, which stimulates peptide release. Here, we have utilized ribose-specific probes to investigate accessibility of rRNA backbone in complexes formed by association of mRNA- and tRNA-bound human ribosomes with eRF1•eRF3•GMPPNP, eRF1•eRF3•GTP, or eRF1 alone as compared with complexes where the A site is vacant or occupied by tRNA. Our data show which rRNA ribose moieties are protected from attack by the probes in the complexes with release factors and reveal the rRNA regions increasing their accessibility to the probes after the factors bind. These regions in 28S rRNA are helices 43 and 44 in the GTPase associated center, the apical loop of helix 71, and helices 89, 92, and 94 as well as 18S rRNA helices 18 and 34. Additionally, the obtained data suggest that eRF3 neither interacts with the rRNA ribose-phosphate backbone nor dissociates from the complex after GTP hydrolysis. Taken together, our findings provide new information on architecture of the eRF1 binding site on mammalian ribosome at various translation termination steps and on conformational rearrangements induced by binding of the release factors.
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MESH Headings
- Binding Sites
- Codon, Terminator
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Female
- Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism
- Humans
- Hydrolysis
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Peptide Chain Termination, Translational
- Peptide Termination Factors/genetics
- Peptide Termination Factors/metabolism
- Placenta/chemistry
- Pregnancy
- Protein Binding
- RNA, Messenger/chemistry
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/metabolism
- Ribosomes/genetics
- Ribosomes/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism
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- Konstantin N Bulygin
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Matheisl S, Berninghausen O, Becker T, Beckmann R. Structure of a human translation termination complex. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:8615-26. [PMID: 26384426 PMCID: PMC4605324 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Accepted: 08/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In contrast to bacteria that have two release factors, RF1 and RF2, eukaryotes only possess one unrelated release factor eRF1, which recognizes all three stop codons of the mRNA and hydrolyses the peptidyl-tRNA bond. While the molecular basis for bacterial termination has been elucidated, high-resolution structures of eukaryotic termination complexes have been lacking. Here we present a 3.8 Å structure of a human translation termination complex with eRF1 decoding a UAA(A) stop codon. The complex was formed using the human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) stalling peptide, which perturbs the peptidyltransferase center (PTC) to silence the hydrolysis activity of eRF1. Moreover, unlike sense codons or bacterial stop codons, the UAA stop codon adopts a U-turn-like conformation within a pocket formed by eRF1 and the ribosome. Inducing the U-turn conformation for stop codon recognition rationalizes how decoding by eRF1 includes monitoring geometry in order to discriminate against sense codons.
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- Sarah Matheisl
- Gene Center and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center and Center for integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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Brown A, Shao S, Murray J, Hegde RS, Ramakrishnan V. Structural basis for stop codon recognition in eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 524:493-496. [PMID: 26245381 PMCID: PMC4591471 DOI: 10.1038/nature14896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Termination of protein synthesis occurs when a translating ribosome encounters one of three universally conserved stop codons: UAA, UAG or UGA. Release factors recognize stop codons in the ribosomal A-site to mediate release of the nascent chain and recycling of the ribosome. Bacteria decode stop codons using two separate release factors with differing specificities for the second and third bases. By contrast, eukaryotes rely on an evolutionarily unrelated omnipotent release factor (eRF1) to recognize all three stop codons. The molecular basis of eRF1 discrimination for stop codons over sense codons is not known. Here we present cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures at 3.5-3.8 Å resolution of mammalian ribosomal complexes containing eRF1 interacting with each of the three stop codons in the A-site. Binding of eRF1 flips nucleotide A1825 of 18S ribosomal RNA so that it stacks on the second and third stop codon bases. This configuration pulls the fourth position base into the A-site, where it is stabilized by stacking against G626 of 18S rRNA. Thus, eRF1 exploits two rRNA nucleotides also used during transfer RNA selection to drive messenger RNA compaction. In this compacted mRNA conformation, stop codons are favoured by a hydrogen-bonding network formed between rRNA and essential eRF1 residues that constrains the identity of the bases. These results provide a molecular framework for eukaryotic stop codon recognition and have implications for future studies on the mechanisms of canonical and premature translation termination.
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- Alan Brown
- MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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Beznosková P, Wagner S, Jansen ME, von der Haar T, Valášek LS. Translation initiation factor eIF3 promotes programmed stop codon readthrough. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:5099-111. [PMID: 25925566 PMCID: PMC4446449 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 04/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Programmed stop codon readthrough is a post-transcription regulatory mechanism specifically increasing proteome diversity by creating a pool of C-terminally extended proteins. During this process, the stop codon is decoded as a sense codon by a near-cognate tRNA, which programs the ribosome to continue elongation. The efficiency of competition for the stop codon between release factors (eRFs) and near-cognate tRNAs is largely dependent on its nucleotide context; however, the molecular mechanism underlying this process is unknown. Here, we show that it is the translation initiation (not termination) factor, namely eIF3, which critically promotes programmed readthrough on all three stop codons. In order to do so, eIF3 must associate with pre-termination complexes where it interferes with the eRF1 decoding of the third/wobble position of the stop codon set in the unfavorable termination context, thus allowing incorporation of near-cognate tRNAs with a mismatch at the same position. We clearly demonstrate that efficient readthrough is enabled by near-cognate tRNAs with a mismatch only at the third/wobble position. Importantly, the eIF3 role in programmed readthrough is conserved between yeast and humans.
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- Petra Beznosková
- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 5, Prague 128 44, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Videnska 1083, Prague 142 20, the Czech Republic
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Polshakov VI, Eliseev BD, Frolova LY, Chang CF, Huang TH. Backbone (1)H, (13)C and (15)N resonance assignments of the human eukaryotic release factor eRF1. BIOMOLECULAR NMR ASSIGNMENTS 2015; 9:37-42. [PMID: 24452424 DOI: 10.1007/s12104-014-9540-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2013] [Accepted: 01/04/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Eukaryotic translation termination is mediated by two interacting release factors, eukaryotic class 1 release factor (eRF1) and eukaryotic class 3 release factor (eRF3), which act cooperatively to ensure efficient stop codon recognition and fast polypeptide release. eRF1 consisting of three well-defined functional domains recognizes all three mRNA stop codons located in the A site of the small ribosomal subunit and triggers hydrolysis of the ester bond of peptidyl-tRNA in the peptidyl transfer center of the large ribosomal subunit. Nevertheless, various aspects of molecular mechanism of translation termination in eukaryotes remain unclear. Elucidation of the structure and dynamics of eRF1 in solution is essential for understanding molecular mechanism of its function in translation termination. To approach this problem, here we report NMR backbone signal assignments of the human eRF1 (437 a.a., 50 kDa).
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- Vladimir I Polshakov
- Center for Magnetic Tomography and Spectroscopy, Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia,
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Susorov D, Mikhailova T, Ivanov A, Sokolova E, Alkalaeva E. Stabilization of eukaryotic ribosomal termination complexes by deacylated tRNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:3332-43. [PMID: 25753665 PMCID: PMC4381076 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2014] [Accepted: 02/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Stabilization of the ribosomal complexes plays an important role in translational control. Mechanisms of ribosome stabilization have been studied in detail for initiation and elongation of eukaryotic translation, but almost nothing is known about stabilization of eukaryotic termination ribosomal complexes. Here, we present one of the mechanisms of fine-tuning of the translation termination process in eukaryotes. We show that certain deacylated tRNAs, remaining in the E site of the ribosome at the end of the elongation cycle, increase the stability of the termination and posttermination complexes. Moreover, only the part of eRF1 recognizing the stop codon is stabilized in the A site of the ribosome, and the stabilization is not dependent on the hydrolysis of peptidyl-tRNA. The determinants, defining this property of the tRNA, reside in the acceptor stem. It was demonstrated by site-directed mutagenesis of tRNAVal and construction of a mini-helix structure identical to the acceptor stem of tRNA. The mechanism of this stabilization is different from the fixation of the unrotated state of the ribosome by CCA end of tRNA or by cycloheximide in the E site. Our data allow to reveal the possible functions of the isodecoder tRNAs in eukaryotes.
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- Denis Susorov
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Blanchet S, Rowe M, Von der Haar T, Fabret C, Demais S, Howard MJ, Namy O. New insights into stop codon recognition by eRF1. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:3298-308. [PMID: 25735746 PMCID: PMC4381064 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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In eukaryotes, translation termination is performed by eRF1, which recognizes stop codons via its N-terminal domain. Many previous studies based on point mutagenesis, cross-linking experiments or eRF1 chimeras have investigated the mechanism by which the stop signal is decoded by eRF1. Conserved motifs, such as GTS and YxCxxxF, were found to be important for termination efficiency, but the recognition mechanism remains unclear. We characterized a region of the eRF1 N-terminal domain, the P1 pocket, that we had previously shown to be involved in termination efficiency. We performed alanine scanning mutagenesis of this region, and we quantified in vivo readthrough efficiency for each alanine mutant. We identified two residues, arginine 65 and lysine 109, as critical for recognition of the three stop codons. We also demonstrated a role for the serine 33 and serine 70 residues in UGA decoding in vivo. NMR analysis of the alanine mutants revealed that the correct conformation of this region was controlled by the YxCxxxF motif. By combining our genetic data with a structural analysis of eRF1 mutants, we were able to formulate a new model in which the stop codon interacts with eRF1 through the P1 pocket.
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- Sandra Blanchet
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Batiment 400, 91400 Orsay, France
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NJ, UK
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Batiment 400, 91400 Orsay, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Batiment 400, 91400 Orsay, France
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NJ, UK
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Batiment 400, 91400 Orsay, France
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Marshall E, Stansfield I, Romano MC. Ribosome recycling induces optimal translation rate at low ribosomal availability. J R Soc Interface 2015; 11:20140589. [PMID: 25008084 PMCID: PMC4233708 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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During eukaryotic cellular protein synthesis, ribosomal translation is made more efficient through interaction between the two ends of the messenger RNA (mRNA). Ribosomes reaching the 3′ end of the mRNA can thus recycle and begin translation again on the same mRNA, the so-called ‘closed-loop’ model. Using a driven diffusion lattice model of translation, we study the effects of ribosome recycling on the dynamics of ribosome flow and density on the mRNA. We show that ribosome recycling induces a substantial increase in ribosome current. Furthermore, for sufficiently large values of the recycling rate, the lattice does not transition directly from low to high ribosome density, as seen in lattice models without recycling. Instead, a maximal current phase becomes accessible for much lower values of the initiation rate, and multiple phase transitions occur over a wide region of the phase plane. Crucially, we show that in the presence of ribosome recycling, mRNAs can exhibit a peak in protein production at low values of the initiation rate, beyond which translation rate decreases. This has important implications for translation of certain mRNAs, suggesting that there is an optimal concentration of ribosomes at which protein synthesis is maximal, and beyond which translational efficiency is impaired.
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- E Marshall
- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK SUPA, Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK
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- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
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- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK SUPA, Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK
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Schmied WH, Elsässer SJ, Uttamapinant C, Chin JW. Efficient multisite unnatural amino acid incorporation in mammalian cells via optimized pyrrolysyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA expression and engineered eRF1. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:15577-83. [PMID: 25350841 PMCID: PMC4333590 DOI: 10.1021/ja5069728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The efficient, site-specific introduction of unnatural amino acids into proteins in mammalian cells is an outstanding challenge in realizing the potential of genetic code expansion approaches. Addressing this challenge will allow the synthesis of modified recombinant proteins and augment emerging strategies that introduce new chemical functionalities into proteins to control and image their function with high spatial and temporal precision in cells. The efficiency of unnatural amino acid incorporation in response to the amber stop codon (UAG) in mammalian cells is commonly considered to be low. Here we demonstrate that tRNA levels can be limiting for unnatural amino acid incorporation efficiency, and we develop an optimized pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNACUA expression system, with optimized tRNA expression for mammalian cells. In addition, we engineer eRF1, that normally terminates translation on all three stop codons, to provide a substantial increase in unnatural amino acid incorporation in response to the UAG codon without increasing readthrough of other stop codons. By combining the optimized pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNACUA expression system and an engineered eRF1, we increase the yield of protein bearing unnatural amino acids at a single site 17- to 20-fold. Using the optimized system, we produce proteins containing unnatural amino acids with comparable yields to a protein produced from a gene that does not contain a UAG stop codon. Moreover, the optimized system increases the yield of protein, incorporating an unnatural amino acid at three sites, from unmeasurably low levels up to 43% of a no amber stop control. Our approach may enable the efficient production of site-specifically modified therapeutic proteins, and the quantitative replacement of targeted cellular proteins with versions bearing unnatural amino acids that allow imaging or synthetic regulation of protein function.
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- Wolfgang H Schmied
- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom
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Preis A, Heuer A, Barrio-Garcia C, Hauser A, Eyler DE, Berninghausen O, Green R, Becker T, Beckmann R. Cryoelectron microscopic structures of eukaryotic translation termination complexes containing eRF1-eRF3 or eRF1-ABCE1. Cell Rep 2014; 8:59-65. [PMID: 25001285 PMCID: PMC6813808 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.04.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2014] [Revised: 03/01/2014] [Accepted: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 10/29/2022] Open
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Termination and ribosome recycling are essential processes in translation. In eukaryotes, a stop codon in the ribosomal A site is decoded by a ternary complex consisting of release factors eRF1 and guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-bound eRF3. After GTP hydrolysis, eRF3 dissociates, and ABCE1 can bind to eRF1-loaded ribosomes to stimulate peptide release and ribosomal subunit dissociation. Here, we present cryoelectron microscopic (cryo-EM) structures of a pretermination complex containing eRF1-eRF3 and a termination/prerecycling complex containing eRF1-ABCE1. eRF1 undergoes drastic conformational changes: its central domain harboring the catalytically important GGQ loop is either packed against eRF3 or swung toward the peptidyl transferase center when bound to ABCE1. Additionally, in complex with eRF3, the N-terminal domain of eRF1 positions the conserved NIKS motif proximal to the stop codon, supporting its suggested role in decoding, yet it appears to be delocalized in the presence of ABCE1. These results suggest that stop codon decoding and peptide release can be uncoupled during termination.
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- Anne Preis
- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789, USA; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789, USA; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.
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- Gene Center Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany; Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Strasse 25, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.
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Karijolich J, Yu YT. Therapeutic suppression of premature termination codons: mechanisms and clinical considerations (review). Int J Mol Med 2014; 34:355-62. [PMID: 24939317 PMCID: PMC4094583 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2014.1809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2014] [Accepted: 06/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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An estimated one-third of genetic disorders are the result of mutations that generate premature termination codons (PTCs) within protein coding genes. These disorders are phenotypically diverse and consist of diseases that affect both young and old individuals. Various small molecules have been identified that are capable of modulating the efficiency of translation termination, including select antibiotics of the aminoglycoside family and multiple novel synthetic molecules, including PTC124. Several of these agents have proved their effectiveness at promoting nonsense suppression in preclinical animal models, as well as in clinical trials. In addition, it has recently been shown that box H/ACA RNA-guided peudouridylation, when directed to modify PTCs, can also promote nonsense suppression. In this review, we summarize our current understanding of eukaryotic translation termination and discuss various methods for promoting the read-through of disease-causing PTCs, as well as the current obstacles that stand in the way of using the discussed agents broadly in clinical practice.
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- John Karijolich
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Liu W, Mellado L, Espeso EA, Sealy-Lewis HM. In Aspergillus nidulans the suppressors suaA and suaC code for release factors eRF1 and eRF3 and suaD codes for a glutamine tRNA. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2014; 4:1047-57. [PMID: 24727290 PMCID: PMC4065248 DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.010702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In Aspergillus nidulans, after extensive mutagenesis, a collection of mutants was obtained and four suppressor loci were identified genetically that could suppress mutations in putative chain termination mutations in different genes. Suppressor mutations in suaB and suaD have a similar restricted spectrum of suppression and suaB111 was previously shown to be an alteration in the anticodon of a gln tRNA. We have shown that like suaB, a suaD suppressor has a mutation in the anticodon of another gln tRNA allowing suppression of UAG mutations. Mutations in suaA and suaC had a broad spectrum of suppression. Four suaA mutations result in alterations in the coding region of the eukaryotic release factor, eRF1, and another suaA mutation has a mutation in the upstream region of eRF1 that prevents splicing of the first intron within the 5'UTR. Epitope tagging of eRF1 in this mutant results in 20% of the level of eRF1 compared to the wild-type. Two mutations in suaC result in alterations in the eukaryotic release factor, eRF3. This is the first description in Aspergillus nidulans of an alteration in eRF3 leading to suppression of chain termination mutations.
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- Wen Liu
- Department of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
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Optimal translational termination requires C4 lysyl hydroxylation of eRF1. Mol Cell 2014; 53:645-54. [PMID: 24486019 PMCID: PMC3991326 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2013] [Revised: 11/26/2013] [Accepted: 12/27/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Efficient stop codon recognition and peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis are essential in order to terminate translational elongation and maintain protein sequence fidelity. Eukaryotic translational termination is mediated by a release factor complex that includes eukaryotic release factor 1 (eRF1) and eRF3. The N terminus of eRF1 contains highly conserved sequence motifs that couple stop codon recognition at the ribosomal A site to peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis. We reveal that Jumonji domain-containing 4 (Jmjd4), a 2-oxoglutarate- and Fe(II)-dependent oxygenase, catalyzes carbon 4 (C4) lysyl hydroxylation of eRF1. This posttranslational modification takes place at an invariant lysine within the eRF1 NIKS motif and is required for optimal translational termination efficiency. These findings further highlight the role of 2-oxoglutarate/Fe(II) oxygenases in fundamental cellular processes and provide additional evidence that ensuring fidelity of protein translation is a major role of hydroxylation. Jmjd4 hydroxylates translational termination factor eRF1 The C4 lysyl hydroxylase activity of Jmjd4 is unprecedented in animals Hydroxylation occurs within the eRF1 stop codon recognition domain Inhibiting eRF1 K63 hydroxylation promotes stop codon readthrough
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des Georges A, Hashem Y, Unbehaun A, Grassucci RA, Taylor D, Hellen CUT, Pestova TV, Frank J. Structure of the mammalian ribosomal pre-termination complex associated with eRF1.eRF3.GDPNP. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 42:3409-18. [PMID: 24335085 PMCID: PMC3950680 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic translation termination results from the complex functional interplay between two release factors, eRF1 and eRF3, in which GTP hydrolysis by eRF3 couples codon recognition with peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis by eRF1. Here, we present a cryo-electron microscopy structure of pre-termination complexes associated with eRF1•eRF3•GDPNP at 9.7 -Å resolution, which corresponds to the initial pre-GTP hydrolysis stage of factor attachment and stop codon recognition. It reveals the ribosomal positions of eRFs and provides insights into the mechanisms of stop codon recognition and triggering of eRF3's GTPase activity.
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- Amédée des Georges
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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