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Sun L, Gomes AC, He W, Zhou H, Wang X, Pan DW, Schimmel P, Pan T, Yang XL. Evolutionary Gain of Alanine Mischarging to Noncognate tRNAs with a G4:U69 Base Pair. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:12948-12955. [PMID: 27622773 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b07121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Fidelity of translation, which is predominately dictated by the accuracy of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in pairing amino acids with correct tRNAs, is of central importance in biology. Yet, deliberate modifications of translational fidelity can be beneficial. Here we found human and not E. coli AlaRS has an intrinsic capacity for mispairing alanine onto nonalanyl-tRNAs including tRNACys. Consistently, a cysteine-to-alanine substitution was found in a reporter protein expressed in human cells. All human AlaRS-mischarged tRNAs have a G4:U69 base pair in the acceptor stem. The base pair is required for the mischarging. By solving the crystal structure of human AlaRS and comparing it to that of E. coli AlaRS, we identified a key sequence divergence between eukaryotes and bacteria that influences mischarging. Thus, the expanded tRNA specificity of AlaRS appears to be an evolutionary gain-of-function to provide posttranscriptional alanine substitutions in eukaryotic proteins for potential regulations.
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- Litao Sun
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, California 92037, United States.,Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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Dignam JD, Guo J, Griffith WP, Garbett NC, Holloway A, Mueser T. Allosteric interaction of nucleotides and tRNA(ala) with E. coli alanyl-tRNA synthetase. Biochemistry 2011; 50:9886-900. [PMID: 21985608 DOI: 10.1021/bi2012004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Alanyl-tRNA synthetase, a dimeric class 2 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, activates glycine and serine at significant rates. An editing activity hydrolyzes Gly-tRNA(ala) and Ser-tRNA(ala) to ensure fidelity of aminoacylation. Analytical ultracentrifugation demonstrates that the enzyme is predominately a dimer in solution. ATP binding to full length enzyme (ARS875) and to an N-terminal construct (ARS461) is endothermic (ΔH = 3-4 kcal mol(-1)) with stoichiometries of 1:1 for ARS461 and 2:1 for full-length dimer. Binding of aminoacyl-adenylate analogues, 5'-O-[N-(L-alanyl)sulfamoyl]adenosine (ASAd) and 5'-O-[N-(L-glycinyl)sulfamoyl]adenosine (GSAd), are exothermic; ASAd exhibits a large negative heat capacity change (ΔC(p) = 0.48 kcal mol(-1) K(-1)). Modification of alanyl-tRNA synthetase with periodate-oxidized tRNA(ala) (otRNA(ala)) generates multiple, covalent, enzyme-tRNA(ala) products. The distribution of these products is altered by ATP, ATP and alanine, and aminoacyl-adenylate analogues (ASAd and GSAd). Alanyl-tRNA synthetase was modified with otRNA(ala), and tRNA-peptides from tryptic digests were purified by ion exchange chromatography. Six peptides linked through a cyclic dehydromoropholino structure at the 3'-end of tRNA(ala) were sequenced by mass spectrometry. One site lies in the N-terminal adenylate synthesis domain (residue 74), two lie in the opening to the editing site (residues 526 and 585), and three (residues 637, 639, and 648) lie on the back side of the editing domain. At least one additional modification site was inferred from analysis of modification of ARS461. The location of the sites modified by otRNA(ala) suggests that there are multiple modes of interaction of tRNA(ala) with the enzyme, whose distribution is influenced by occupation of the ATP binding site.
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- John David Dignam
- Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio 43614, United States.
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Laganowsky A, Zhao M, Soriaga AB, Sawaya MR, Cascio D, Yeates TO. An approach to crystallizing proteins by metal-mediated synthetic symmetrization. Protein Sci 2011; 20:1876-90. [PMID: 21898649 DOI: 10.1002/pro.727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2011] [Revised: 08/17/2011] [Accepted: 08/17/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Combining the concepts of synthetic symmetrization with the approach of engineering metal-binding sites, we have developed a new crystallization methodology termed metal-mediated synthetic symmetrization. In this method, pairs of histidine or cysteine mutations are introduced on the surface of target proteins, generating crystal lattice contacts or oligomeric assemblies upon coordination with metal. Metal-mediated synthetic symmetrization greatly expands the packing and oligomeric assembly possibilities of target proteins, thereby increasing the chances of growing diffraction-quality crystals. To demonstrate this method, we designed various T4 lysozyme (T4L) and maltose-binding protein (MBP) mutants and cocrystallized them with one of three metal ions: copper (Cu²⁺, nickel (Ni²⁺), or zinc (Zn²⁺). The approach resulted in 16 new crystal structures--eight for T4L and eight for MBP--displaying a variety of oligomeric assemblies and packing modes, representing in total 13 new and distinct crystal forms for these proteins. We discuss the potential utility of the method for crystallizing target proteins of unknown structure by engineering in pairs of histidine or cysteine residues. As an alternate strategy, we propose that the varied crystallization-prone forms of T4L or MBP engineered in this work could be used as crystallization chaperones, by fusing them genetically to target proteins of interest.
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- Arthur Laganowsky
- Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, UCLA-DOE, Los Angeles, California 90095-1570, USA
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Forse GJ, Ram N, Banatao DR, Cascio D, Sawaya MR, Klock HE, Lesley SA, Yeates TO. Synthetic symmetrization in the crystallization and structure determination of CelA from Thermotoga maritima. Protein Sci 2011; 20:168-78. [PMID: 21082721 DOI: 10.1002/pro.550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Protein crystallization continues to be a major bottleneck in X-ray crystallography. Previous studies suggest that symmetric proteins, such as homodimers, might crystallize more readily than monomeric proteins or asymmetric complexes. Proteins that are naturally monomeric can be made homodimeric artificially. Our approach is to create homodimeric proteins by introducing single cysteines into the protein of interest, which are then oxidized to form a disulfide bond between the two monomers. By introducing the single cysteine at different sequence positions, one can produce a variety of synthetically dimerized versions of a protein, with each construct expected to exhibit its own crystallization behavior. In earlier work, we demonstrated the potential utility of the approach using T4 lysozyme as a model system. Here we report the successful application of the method to Thermotoga maritima CelA, a thermophilic endoglucanase enzyme with low sequence identity to proteins with structures previously reported in the Protein Data Bank. This protein had resisted crystallization in its natural monomeric form, despite a broad survey of crystallization conditions. The synthetic dimerization of the CelA mutant D188C yielded well-diffracting crystals with molecules in a packing arrangement that would not have occurred with native, monomeric CelA. A 2.4 Å crystal structure was determined by single anomalous dispersion using a seleno-methionine derivatized protein. The results support the notion that synthetic symmetrization can be a useful approach for enlarging the search space for crystallizing monomeric proteins or asymmetric complexes.
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- G Jason Forse
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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