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Firth AE, Wills NM, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Stimulation of stop codon readthrough: frequent presence of an extended 3' RNA structural element. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:6679-91. [PMID: 21525127 PMCID: PMC3159437 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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In Sindbis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis and related alphaviruses, the polymerase is translated as a fusion with other non-structural proteins via readthrough of a UGA stop codon. Surprisingly, earlier work reported that the signal for efficient readthrough comprises a single cytidine residue 3′-adjacent to the UGA. However, analysis of variability at synonymous sites revealed strikingly enhanced conservation within the ∼150 nt 3′-adjacent to the UGA, and RNA folding algorithms revealed the potential for a phylogenetically conserved stem–loop structure in the same region. Mutational analysis of the predicted structure demonstrated that the stem–loop increases readthrough by up to 10-fold. The same computational analysis indicated that similar RNA structures are likely to be relevant to readthrough in certain plant virus genera, notably Furovirus, Pomovirus, Tobravirus, Pecluvirus and Benyvirus, as well as the Drosophilia gene kelch. These results suggest that 3′ RNA stimulatory structures feature in a much larger proportion of readthrough cases than previously anticipated, and provide a new criterion for assessing the large number of cellular readthrough candidates that are currently being revealed by comparative sequence analysis.
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- Andrew E Firth
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK
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Frameshifting provides an elegant mechanism by which viral RNA both encodes overlapping genes and controls expression levels of those genes. As in animal viruses, the −1 ribosomal frameshift site in the viral mRNA consists of a canonical shifty heptanucleotide followed by a highly structured frameshift stimulatory element, and the gene translated as a result of frameshifting usually encodes the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. In plant viruses, the −1 frameshift stimulatory element consists of either (i) a small pseudoknot stabilized by many triple-stranded regions and a triple base pair containing a protonated cytidine at the helical junction, (ii) an unusual apical loop–internal loop interaction in which a stem-loop in the 3′ untranslated region 4 kb downstream base pairs to a bulged stem-loop at the frameshift site, or (iii) a potential simple stem-loop. Other less well-characterized changes in reading frame occur on plant viral RNAs, including a possible +1 frameshift, and net −1 reading frame changes that do not utilize canonical frameshift signals. All these studies reveal the remarkable ways in which plant viral RNAs interact with ribosomes to precisely control protein expression at the ratios needed to sustain virus replication.
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- John F. Atkins
- grid.223827.e0000000121930096Molecular Biology Program, University of Utah, N. 2030 E. 15, Salt Late City, 84112-5330 U.S.A.
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- grid.223827.e0000000121930096Dept. Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 U.S.A.
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Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, Pennell S. Pseudoknot-Dependent Programmed —1 Ribosomal Frameshifting: Structures, Mechanisms and Models. Recoding: Expansion of Decoding Rules Enriches Gene Expression 2009; 24. [PMCID: PMC7119991 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89382-2_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Programmed —1 ribosomal frameshifting is a translational recoding strategy that takes place during the elongation phase of protein biosynthesis. Frameshifting occurs in response to specific signals in the mRNA; a slippery sequence, where the ribosome changes frame, and a stimulatory RNA secondary structure, usually a pseudoknot, located immediately downstream. During the frameshift the ribosome slips backwards by a single nucleotide (in the 5′-wards/—1 direction) and continues translation in the new, overlapping reading frame, generating a fusion protein composed of the products of both the original and the —1 frame coding regions. In eukaryotes, frameshifting is largely a phenomenon of virus gene expression and associated predominantly with the expression of viral replicases. Research on frameshifting impacts upon diverse topics, including the ribosomal elongation cycle, RNA structure and function, tRNA modification, virus replication, antiviral intervention, evolution and bioinformatics. This chapter focuses on the structure and function of frameshift-stimulatory RNA pseudoknots and mechanistic aspects of ribosomal frameshifting. A variety of models of the frameshifting process are discussed in the light of recent advances in our understanding of ribosome structure and the elongation cycle.
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- John F. Atkins
- grid.223827.e0000000121930096Molecular Biology Program, University of Utah, N. 2030 E. 15, Salt Late City, 84112-5330 U.S.A.
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- grid.223827.e0000000121930096Dept. Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 U.S.A.
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The distribution of sequences which induce non-standard decoding, especially of shift-prone sequences, is very unusual. On one hand, since they can disrupt standard genetic readout, they are avoided within the coding regions of most genes. On the other hand, they play important regulatory roles for the expression of those genes where they do occur. As a result, they are preserved among homologs and exhibit deep phylogenetic conservation. The combination of these two constraints results in a characteristic distribution of recoding sequences across genomes: they are highly conserved at specific locations while they are very rare in other locations. We term such sequences singular genomic elements to signify their rare occurrence and biological importance.
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- John F. Atkins
- Molecular Biology Program, University of Utah, N. 2030 E. 15, Salt Late City, 84112-5330 U.S.A
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Wills NM, O'Connor M, Nelson CC, Rettberg CC, Huang WM, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Translational bypassing without peptidyl-tRNA anticodon scanning of coding gap mRNA. EMBO J 2008; 27:2533-44. [PMID: 18772887 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2008] [Accepted: 08/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Half the ribosomes translating the mRNA for phage T4 gene 60 topoisomerase subunit bypass a 50 nucleotide coding gap between codons 46 and 47. The pairing of codon 46 with its cognate peptidyl-tRNA anticodon dissociates, and following mRNA slippage, peptidyl-tRNA re-pairs to mRNA at a matched triplet 5' adjacent to codon 47, where translation resumes. Here, in studies with gene 60 cassettes, it is shown that the peptidyl-tRNA anticodon does not scan the intervening sequence for potential complementarity. However, certain coding gap mutants allow peptidyl-tRNA to scan sequences in the bypassed segment. A model is proposed in which the coding gap mRNA enters the ribosomal A-site and forms a structure that precludes peptidyl-tRNA scanning of its sequence. Dissipation of this RNA structure, together with the contribution of 16S rRNA anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence pairing with GAG, facilitates peptidyl-tRNA re-pairing to mRNA.
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- Norma M Wills
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Hill KE, Zhou J, Austin LM, Motley AK, Ham AJL, Olson GE, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, Burk RF. The Selenium-rich C-terminal Domain of Mouse Selenoprotein P Is Necessary for the Supply of Selenium to Brain and Testis but Not for the Maintenance of Whole Body Selenium. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:10972-80. [PMID: 17311913 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m700436200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Selenoprotein P (Sepp1) has two domains with respect to selenium content: the N-terminal, selenium-poor domain and the C-terminal, selenium-rich domain. To assess domain function, mice with deletion of the C-terminal domain have been produced and compared with Sepp1-/- and Sepp1+/+ mice. All mice studied were males fed a semipurified diet with defined selenium content. The Sepp1 protein in the plasma of mice with the C-terminal domain deleted was determined by mass spectrometry to terminate after serine 239 and thus was designated Sepp1Delta240-361. Plasma Sepp1 and selenium concentrations as well as glutathione peroxidase activity were determined in the three types of mice. Glutathione peroxidase and Sepp1Delta240-361 accounted for over 90% of the selenium in the plasma of Sepp1Delta240-361 mice. Calculations using results from Sepp1+/+ mice revealed that Sepp1, with a potential for containing 10 selenocysteine residues, contained an average of 5 selenium atoms per molecule, indicating that shortened and/or selenium-depleted forms of the protein were present in these wild-type mice. Sepp1Delta240-361 mice had low brain and testis selenium concentrations that were similar to those in Sepp1-/- mice but they better maintained their whole body selenium. Sepp1Delta240-361 mice had depressed fertility, even when they were fed a high selenium diet, and their spermatozoa were defective and morphologically indistinguishable from those of selenium-deficient mice. Neurological dysfunction and death occurred when Sepp1Delta240-361 mice were fed selenium-deficient diet. These phenotypes were similar to those of Sepp1-/- mice but had later onset or were less severe. The results of this study demonstrate that the C terminus of Sepp1 is critical for the maintenance of selenium in brain and testis but not for the maintenance of whole body selenium.
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- Kristina E Hill
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Ivanov IP, Pittman AJ, Chien CB, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Novel antizyme gene in Danio rerio expressed in brain and retina. Gene 2007; 387:87-92. [PMID: 17049757 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2006] [Revised: 08/03/2006] [Accepted: 08/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The synthesis of the protein antizyme requires a +1 ribosomal frameshift event. The frameshifting serves as a regulatory sensor. Antizyme homologs have been identified in diverse organisms ranging from yeast to human and characterized in a disparate subset. Most vertebrates have multiple antizyme paralogs. Here we present identification in the zebrafish Danio rerio of a heretofore unknown member of the antizyme gene family. This novel antizyme does not correspond to any of the known orthologous groups in vertebrates and unlike most other antizymes is preferentially expressed in the retinal ganglion cell layer of the eye. In addition to the retina, it is also expressed in the brain and somites.
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- Ivaylo P Ivanov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Utah 84112-5330, United States
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Petros LM, Graminski GF, Robinson S, Burns MR, Kisiel N, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Kramer DL, Howard MT, Weeks RS. Polyamine Analogs with Xylene Rings Induce Antizyme Frameshifting, Reduce ODC Activity, and Deplete Cellular Polyamines. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 140:657-66. [PMID: 16998202 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Numerous studies have correlated elevated polyamine levels with abnormal or rapid cell growth. One therapeutic strategy to treat diseases with increased cellular proliferation rates, most obviously cancer, has been to identify compounds which lower cellular polyamine levels. An ideal target for this strategy is the protein antizyme-a negative regulator of polyamine biosynthesis and import, and a positive regulator of polyamine export. In this study, we have optimized two tissue-culture assays in 96-well format, to allow the rapid screening of a 750-member polyamine analog library for compounds which induce antizyme frameshifting and fail to substitute for the natural polyamines in growth. Five analogs (MQTPA1-5) containing xylene (1,4-dimethyl benzene) were found to be equal to or better than spermidine at stimulating antizyme frameshifting and were inefficient at rescuing cell growth following polyamine depletion. These compounds were further characterized for effects on natural polyamine levels and enzymes involved in polyamine metabolism. Finally, direct measurements of antizyme induction in cells treated with two of the lead compounds revealed an 8- to 15-fold increase in antizyme protein over untreated cells. The impact of the xylene moiety and the distance between the positively charged amino groups on antizyme frameshifting and cell growth are discussed.
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- Lorin M Petros
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15 N 2030 E, Rm 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA.
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Baranov PV, Vestergaard B, Hamelryck T, Gesteland RF, Nyborg J, Atkins JF. Diverse bacterial genomes encode an operon of two genes, one of which is an unusual class-I release factor that potentially recognizes atypical mRNA signals other than normal stop codons. Biol Direct 2006; 1:28. [PMID: 16970810 PMCID: PMC1586002 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-1-28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2006] [Accepted: 09/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND While all codons that specify amino acids are universally recognized by tRNA molecules, codons signaling termination of translation are recognized by proteins known as class-I release factors (RF). In most eukaryotes and archaea a single RF accomplishes termination at all three stop codons. In most bacteria, there are two RFs with overlapping specificity, RF1 recognizes UA(A/G) and RF2 recognizes U(A/G)A. THE HYPOTHESIS First, we hypothesize that orthologues of the E. coli K12 pseudogene prfH encode a third class-I RF that we designate RFH. Second, it is likely that RFH responds to signals other than conventional stop codons. Supporting evidence comes from the following facts: (i) A number of bacterial genomes contain prfH orthologues with no discernable interruptions in their ORFs. (ii) RFH shares strong sequence similarity with other class-I bacterial RFs. (iii) RFH contains a highly conserved GGQ motif associated with peptidyl hydrolysis activity (iv) residues located in the areas supposedly interacting with mRNA and the ribosomal decoding center are highly conserved in RFH, but different from other RFs. RFH lacks the functional, but non-essential domain 1. Yet, RFH-encoding genes are invariably accompanied by a highly conserved gene of unknown function, which is absent in genomes that lack a gene for RFH. The accompanying gene is always located upstream of the RFH gene and with the same orientation. The proximity of the 3' end of the former with the 5' end of the RFH gene makes it likely that their expression is co-regulated via translational coupling. In summary, RFH has the characteristics expected for a class-I RF, but likely with different specificity than RF1 and RF2. TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS The most puzzling question is which signals RFH recognizes to trigger its release function. Genetic swapping of RFH mRNA recognition components with its RF1 or RF2 counterparts may reveal the nature of RFH signals. IMPLICATIONS OF THE HYPOTHESIS The hypothesis implies a greater versatility of release-factor like activity in the ribosomal A-site than previously appreciated. A closer study of RFH may provide insight into the evolution of the genetic code and of the translational machinery responsible for termination of translation. REVIEWERS This article was reviewed by Daniel Wilson (nominated by Eugene Koonin), Warren Tate (nominated by Eugene Koonin), Yoshikazu Nakamura (nominated by Eugene Koonin) and Eugene Koonin.
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- Pavel V Baranov
- Bioscience Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E, Salt Lake City, UT84112-5330, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Gustav Wieds Vej 10C, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bioinformatics center, Institute of Molecular Biology and Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Building 10, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Gustav Wieds Vej 10C, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Bioscience Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E, Salt Lake City, UT84112-5330, USA
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Ivanov IP, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Evolutionary specialization of recoding: frameshifting in the expression of S. cerevisiae antizyme mRNA is via an atypical antizyme shift site but is still +1. RNA 2006; 12:332-7. [PMID: 16431984 PMCID: PMC1383572 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2245906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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An autoregulatory translational shift to the +1 frame is required for the expression of ornithine decarboxylase antizyme from fungi to mammals. In most eukaryotes, including all vertebrates and a majority of the studied fungi/yeast, the site on antizyme mRNA where the shift occurs is UCC-UGA. The mechanism of the frameshift on this sequence likely involves nearly universal aspects of the eukaryotic translational machinery. Nevertheless, a mammalian antizyme frameshift cassette yields predominantly -2 frameshift in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, instead of the +1 in mammals. The recently identified endogenous S. cerevisiae antizyme mRNA has an atypical shift site: UGC-GCG-UGA. It is shown here that endogenous S. cerevisiae antizyme frameshifting is +1 rather than -2. We discuss how antizyme frameshifting in budding yeasts exploits peculiarities of their tRNA balance, and relate this to prior studies on Ty frameshifting.
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Motley AK, Hill KE, Zhou J, Austin LM, Olson GE, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, Burk RF. The C‐terminal Domain of Selenoprotein P Is Needed for Maintenance of Selenium Homeostasis. FASEB J 2006. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.20.5.a1067-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Amy K Motley
- Vanderbilt University2215B Garland AveNashvilleTN37232‐0252
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- University of Utah15 N 2030 ESalt Lake CityUT84112‐5330
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- Vanderbilt University2215B Garland AveNashvilleTN37232‐0252
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- Vanderbilt University2215B Garland AveNashvilleTN37232‐0252
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- University of Utah15 N 2030 ESalt Lake CityUT84112‐5330
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- Vanderbilt University2215B Garland AveNashvilleTN37232‐0252
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A bioinformatics approach to finding new cases of -1 frameshifting in the expression of human genes revealed a classical retrovirus-like heptanucleotide shift site followed by a potential structural stimulator in the paraneoplastic antigen Ma3 and Ma5 genes. Analysis of the sequence 3' of the shift site demonstrated that an RNA pseudoknot in Ma3 is important for promoting efficient -1 frame-shifting. Ma3 is a member of a family of six genes in humans whose protein products contain homology to retroviral Gag proteins. The -1 frameshift site and pseudoknot structure are conserved in other mammals, but there are some sequence differences. Although the functions of the Ma genes are unknown, the serious neurological effects of ectopic expression in tumor cells indicate their importance in the brain.
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- Norma M Wills
- Department of Human Genetics, 15 N. 2030 E., Bldg. 533, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Petros LM, Howard MT, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Polyamine sensing during antizyme mRNA programmed frameshifting. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 338:1478-89. [PMID: 16269132 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.10.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2005] [Accepted: 10/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A key regulator of cellular polyamine levels from yeasts to mammals is the protein antizyme. The antizyme gene consists of two overlapping reading frames with ORF2 in the +1 frame relative to ORF1. A programmed +1 ribosomal frameshift occurs at the last codon of ORF1 and results in the production of full-length antizyme protein. The efficiency of frameshifting is proportional to the concentration of polyamines, thus creating an autoregulatory circuit for controlling polyamine levels. The mRNA recoding signals for frameshifting include an element 5' and a pseudoknot 3' of the shift site. The present work illustrates that the ORF1 stop codon and the 5' element are critical for polyamine sensing, whereas the 3' pseudoknot acts to stimulate frameshifting in a polyamine independent manner. We also demonstrate that polyamines are required to stimulate stop codon readthrough at the MuLV redefinition site required for normal expression of the GagPol precursor protein.
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- Lorin M Petros
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15 N. 2030 E, Rm 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Gurvich OL, Baranov PV, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Expression levels influence ribosomal frameshifting at the tandem rare arginine codons AGG_AGG and AGA_AGA in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:4023-32. [PMID: 15937165 PMCID: PMC1151738 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.12.4023-4032.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The rare codons AGG and AGA comprise 2% and 4%, respectively, of the arginine codons of Escherichia coli K-12, and their cognate tRNAs are sparse. At tandem occurrences of either rare codon, the paucity of cognate aminoacyl tRNAs for the second codon of the pair facilitates peptidyl-tRNA shifting to the +1 frame. However, AGG_AGG and AGA_AGA are not underrepresented and occur 4 and 42 times, respectively, in E. coli genes. Searches for corresponding occurrences in other bacteria provide no strong support for the functional utilization of frameshifting at these sequences. All sequences tested in their native context showed 1.5 to 11% frameshifting when expressed from multicopy plasmids. A cassette with one of these sequences singly integrated into the chromosome in stringent cells gave 0.9% frameshifting in contrast to two- to four-times-higher values obtained from multicopy plasmids in stringent cells and eight-times-higher values in relaxed cells. Thus, +1 frameshifting efficiency at AGG_AGG and AGA_AGA is influenced by the mRNA expression level. These tandem rare codons do not occur in highly expressed mRNAs.
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- Olga L Gurvich
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E, Rm. 7410, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5330, USA
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Baranov PV, Hammer AW, Zhou J, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Transcriptional slippage in bacteria: distribution in sequenced genomes and utilization in IS element gene expression. Genome Biol 2005; 6:R25. [PMID: 15774026 PMCID: PMC1088944 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-3-r25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2004] [Revised: 12/16/2004] [Accepted: 01/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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To find a length of slippage-prone sequences at which selection against transcriptional slippage is evident, the transcription of repetitive runs of A and T of different lengths in 108 bacterial genomes was analyzed. IS element genes were found to exploit transcriptional slippage for regulation of gene expression. Background Transcription slippage occurs on certain patterns of repeat mononucleotides, resulting in synthesis of a heterogeneous population of mRNAs. Individual mRNA molecules within this population differ in the number of nucleotides they contain that are not specified by the template. When transcriptional slippage occurs in a coding sequence, translation of the resulting mRNAs yields more than one protein product. Except where the products of the resulting mRNAs have distinct functions, transcription slippage occurring in a coding region is expected to be disadvantageous. This probably leads to selection against most slippage-prone sequences in coding regions. Results To find a length at which such selection is evident, we analyzed the distribution of repetitive runs of A and T of different lengths in 108 bacterial genomes. This length varies significantly among different bacteria, but in a large proportion of available genomes corresponds to nine nucleotides. Comparative sequence analysis of these genomes was used to identify occurrences of 9A and 9T transcriptional slippage-prone sequences used for gene expression. Conclusions IS element genes are the largest group found to exploit this phenomenon. A number of genes with disrupted open reading frames (ORFs) have slippage-prone sequences at which transcriptional slippage would result in uninterrupted ORF restoration at the mRNA level. The ability of such genes to encode functional full-length protein products brings into question their annotation as pseudogenes and in these cases is pertinent to the significance of the term 'authentic frameshift' frequently assigned to such genes.
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- Pavel V Baranov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
- Bioscience Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
- Current address: Gene Technology Division, Nitto Denko Technical Corporation, 401 Jones Road, Oceanside, CA 92054, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
- Bioscience Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Bucklin DJ, Wills NM, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. P-site pairing subtleties revealed by the effects of different tRNAs on programmed translational bypassing where anticodon re-pairing to mRNA is separated from dissociation. J Mol Biol 2005; 345:39-49. [PMID: 15567409 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.10.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2004] [Revised: 10/11/2004] [Accepted: 10/13/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Programmed ribosomal bypassing occurs in decoding phage T4 gene 60 mRNA. Half the ribosomes bypass a 50 nucleotide gap between codons 46 and 47. Peptidyl-tRNA dissociates from the "take-off" GGA, codon 46, and re-pairs to mRNA at a matched GGA "landing site" codon directly 5' of codon 47 where translation resumes. The system described here allows the contribution of peptidyl-tRNA re-pairing to be measured independently of dissociation. The matched GGA codons have been replaced by 62 other matched codons, giving a wide range of bypassing efficiencies. Codons with G or C in either or both of the first two codon positions yielded high levels of bypassing. The results are compared with those from a complementary study of non-programmed bypassing, where the combined effects of peptidyl-tRNA dissociation and reassociation were measured. The wild-type, GGA, matched codons are the most efficient in their gene 60 context in contrast to the relatively low value in the non-programmed bypassing study.
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- Douglas J Bucklin
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Rm7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Howard MT, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Efficient stimulation of site-specific ribosome frameshifting by antisense oligonucleotides. RNA 2004; 10:1653-61. [PMID: 15383681 PMCID: PMC1370650 DOI: 10.1261/rna.7810204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2004] [Accepted: 07/20/2004] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Evidence is presented that morpholino, 2'-O-methyl, phosphorothioate, and RNA antisense oligonucleotides can direct site-specific -1 translational frameshifting when annealed to mRNA downstream from sequences where the P- and A-site tRNAs are both capable of repairing with -1 frame codons. The efficiency of ribosomes shifting into the new frame can be as high as 40%, determined by the sequence of the frameshift site, as well as the location, sequence composition, and modification of the antisense oligonucleotide. These results demonstrate that a perfect duplex formed by complementary oligonucleotides is sufficient to induce high level -1 frameshifting. The implications for the mechanism of action of natural programmed translational frameshift stimulators are discussed.
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- Michael T Howard
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15 N. 2030 E., Rm. 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA.
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Ivanov IP, Anderson CB, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Identification of a new antizyme mRNA +1 frameshifting stimulatory pseudoknot in a subset of diverse invertebrates and its apparent absence in intermediate species. J Mol Biol 2004; 339:495-504. [PMID: 15147837 PMCID: PMC7125782 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.03.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2003] [Revised: 03/30/2004] [Accepted: 03/31/2004] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The expression of eukaryotic antizyme genes requires +1 translational frameshifting. The frameshift in decoding most vertebrate antizyme mRNAs is stimulated by an RNA pseudoknot 3' of the frameshift site. Although the frameshifting event itself is conserved in a wide variety of organisms from yeast to mammals, until recently no corresponding 3' RNA pseudoknot was known in invertebrate antizyme mRNAs. A pseudoknot, different in structure and origin from its vertebrate counterparts, is now shown to be encoded by the antizyme genes of distantly related invertebrates. Identification of the 3' frameshifting stimulator in intermediate species or other invertebrates remains unresolved.
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Mejlhede N, Licznar P, Prère MF, Wills NM, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Fayet O. -1 frameshifting at a CGA AAG hexanucleotide site is required for transposition of insertion sequence IS1222. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:3274-7. [PMID: 15126494 PMCID: PMC400620 DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.10.3274-3277.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2003] [Accepted: 02/02/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The discovery of programmed -1 frameshifting at the hexanucleotide shift site CGA_AAG, in addition to the classical X_XXY_YYZ heptanucleotide shift sequences, prompted a search for instances among eubacterial insertion sequence elements. IS1222 has a CGA_AAG shift site. A genetic analysis revealed that frameshifting at this site is required for transposition.
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- Nina Mejlhede
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, UMR5100 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 31062, France
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Matveeva OV, Foley BT, Nemtsov VA, Gesteland RF, Matsufuji S, Atkins JF, Ogurtsov AY, Shabalina SA. Identification of regions in multiple sequence alignments thermodynamically suitable for targeting by consensus oligonucleotides: application to HIV genome. BMC Bioinformatics 2004; 5:44. [PMID: 15115544 PMCID: PMC419695 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2004] [Accepted: 04/29/2004] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Computer programs for the generation of multiple sequence alignments such as "Clustal W" allow detection of regions that are most conserved among many sequence variants. However, even for regions that are equally conserved, their potential utility as hybridization targets varies. Mismatches in sequence variants are more disruptive in some duplexes than in others. Additionally, the propensity for self-interactions amongst oligonucleotides targeting conserved regions differs and the structure of target regions themselves can also influence hybridization efficiency. There is a need to develop software that will employ thermodynamic selection criteria for finding optimal hybridization targets in related sequences. Results A new scheme and new software for optimal detection of oligonucleotide hybridization targets common to families of aligned sequences is suggested and applied to aligned sequence variants of the complete HIV-1 genome. The scheme employs sequential filtering procedures with experimentally determined thermodynamic cut off points: 1) creation of a consensus sequence of RNA or DNA from aligned sequence variants with specification of the lengths of fragments to be used as oligonucleotide targets in the analyses; 2) selection of DNA oligonucleotides that have pairing potential, greater than a defined threshold, with all variants of aligned RNA sequences; 3) elimination of DNA oligonucleotides that have self-pairing potentials for intra- and inter-molecular interactions greater than defined thresholds. This scheme has been applied to the HIV-1 genome with experimentally determined thermodynamic cut off points. Theoretically optimal RNA target regions for consensus oligonucleotides were found. They can be further used for improvement of oligo-probe based HIV detection techniques. Conclusions A selection scheme with thermodynamic thresholds and software is presented in this study. The package can be used for any purpose where there is a need to design optimal consensus oligonucleotides capable of interacting efficiently with hybridization targets common to families of aligned RNA or DNA sequences. Our thermodynamic approach can be helpful in designing consensus oligonucleotides with consistently high affinity to target variants in evolutionary related genes or genomes.
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- Olga V Matveeva
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112-5330, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112-5330, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry II The Jikei University School of Medicine 3-25-8 Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112-5330, USA
- Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
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Howard MT, Anderson CB, Fass U, Khatri S, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Flanigan KM. Readthrough of dystrophin stop codon mutations induced by aminoglycosides. Ann Neurol 2004; 55:422-6. [PMID: 14991821 DOI: 10.1002/ana.20052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We report the translational readthrough levels induced by the aminoglycosides gentamicin, amikacin, tobramycin, and paromomycin for eight premature stop codon mutations identified in Duchenne's and Becker's muscular dystrophy patients. In a transient transfection reporter assay, aminoglycoside treatment results show that one stop codon mutation is suppressed significantly better (up to 10% stop codon readthrough) than the others; five show lower but statistically significant suppression (< 2% stop codon readthrough); and two appear refractory to aminoglycoside treatment. Readthrough levels do not substantially vary between different sources of gentamicin, and, for this set of mutations, the efficiency of termination at the premature stop codon mutation does not appear to correlate with disease severity.
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- Michael T Howard
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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The expression of some genes requires a high proportion of ribosomes to shift at a specific site into one of the two alternative frames. This utilized frameshifting provides a unique tool for studying reading frame control. Peptidyl-tRNA slippage has been invoked to explain many cases of programmed frameshifting. The present work extends this to other cases. When the A-site is unoccupied, the P-site tRNA can be repositioned forward with respect to mRNA (although repositioning in the minus direction is also possible). A kinetic model is presented for the influence of both, the cognate tRNAs competing for overlapping codons in A-site, and the stabilities of P-site tRNA:mRNA complexes in the initial and new frames. When the A-site is occupied, the P-site tRNA can be repositioned backward. Whether frameshifting will happen depends on the ability of the A-site tRNA to subsequently be repositioned to maintain physical proximity of the tRNAs. This model offers an alternative explanation to previously published mechanisms of programmed frameshifting, such as out-of-frame tRNA binding, and a different perspective on simultaneous tandem tRNA slippage.
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- Pavel V Baranov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5330, USA
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Herr AJ, Wills NM, Nelson CC, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Factors that influence selection of coding resumption sites in translational bypassing: minimal conventional peptidyl-tRNA:mRNA pairing can suffice. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:11081-7. [PMID: 14707145 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m311491200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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This study investigates bypassing initiated from codons immediately 5' of a stop codon. The mRNA slips and is scanned by the peptidyl-tRNA for a suitable landing site, and standard decoding resumes at the next 3' codon. This work shows that landing sites with potentially strong base pairing between the peptidyl-tRNA anticodon and mRNA are preferred, but sites with little or no potential for Watson-Crick or wobble base pairing can also be utilized. These results have implications for re-pairing in ribosomal frameshifting. Shine-Dalgarno sequences in the mRNA can alter the distribution of landing sites observed. The bacteriophage T4 gene 60 nascent peptide, known to influence take-off in its native context, imposes stringent P-site pairing requirements, thereby limiting the number of suitable landing sites.
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- Alan J Herr
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5330
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Gurvich OL, Baranov PV, Zhou J, Hammer AW, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Sequences that direct significant levels of frameshifting are frequent in coding regions of Escherichia coli. EMBO J 2003; 22:5941-50. [PMID: 14592990 PMCID: PMC275418 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2003] [Revised: 08/27/2003] [Accepted: 09/12/2003] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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It is generally believed that significant ribosomal frameshifting during translation does not occur without a functional purpose. The distribution of two frameshift-prone sequences, A_AAA_AAG and CCC_TGA, in coding regions of Escherichia coli has been analyzed. Although a moderate level of selection against the first sequence is evident, 68 genes contain A_AAA_AAG and 19 contain CCC_TGA. The majority of those tested in their genomic context showed >1% frameshifting. Comparative sequence analysis was employed to assess a potential biological role for frameshifting in decoding these genes. Two new candidates, in pheL and ydaY, for utilized frameshifting have been identified in addition to those previously known in dnaX and nine insertion sequence elements. For the majority of the shift-prone sequences no functional role can be attributed to them, and the frameshifting is likely erroneous. However, none of frameshift sequences is in the 306 most highly expressed genes. The unexpected conclusion is that moderate frameshifting during expression of at least some other genes is not sufficiently harmful for cells to trigger strong negative evolutionary pressure.
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- Olga L Gurvich
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Licznar P, Mejlhede N, Prère MF, Wills N, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Fayet O. Programmed translational -1 frameshifting on hexanucleotide motifs and the wobble properties of tRNAs. EMBO J 2003; 22:4770-8. [PMID: 12970189 PMCID: PMC212731 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2003] [Revised: 06/25/2003] [Accepted: 07/25/2003] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting, involving tRNA re-pairing from an AAG codon to an AAA codon, has been reported to occur at the sequences CGA AAG and CAA AAG. In this study, using the recoding region of insertion sequence IS3, we have investigated the influence on frameshifting in Escherichia coli of the first codon of this type of motif by changing it to all other NNA codons. Two classes of NNA codons were distinguished, depending on whether they favor or limit frameshifting. Their degree of shiftiness is correlated with wobble propensity, and base 34 modification, of their decoding tRNAs. A more flexible anticodon loop very likely makes the tRNAs with extended wobble more prone to liberate the third codon base, A, for re-pairing of tRNALys in the -1 frame.
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- Patricia Licznar
- Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
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Matveeva OV, Mathews DH, Tsodikov AD, Shabalina SA, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Freier SM. Thermodynamic criteria for high hit rate antisense oligonucleotide design. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:4989-94. [PMID: 12930948 PMCID: PMC212809 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Antisense oligonucleotides are used for therapeutic applications and in functional genomic studies. In practice, however, many of the oligonucleotides complementary to an mRNA have little or no antisense activity. Theoretical strategies to improve the 'hit rate' in antisense screens will reduce the cost of discovery and may lead to identification of antisense oligonucleotides with increased potency. Statistical analysis performed on data collected from more than 1000 experiments with phosphorothioate-modified oligonucleotides revealed that the oligo-probes, which form stable duplexes with RNA (DeltaG(o)37 < or = -30 kcal/mol) and have small self-interaction potential, are more frequently efficient than molecules that form less stable oligonucleotide-RNA hybrids or more stable self-structures. To achieve optimal statistical preference, the values for self-interaction should be (DeltaG(o)37) > or = -8 kcal/mol for inter-oligonucleotide pairing and (DeltaG(o)37) > or = -1.1 kcal/mol for intra-molecular pairing. Selection of oligonucleotides with these thermodynamic values in the analyzed experiments would have increased the 'hit rate' by as much as 6-fold.
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- O V Matveeva
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA.
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Matveeva OV, Shabalina SA, Nemtsov VA, Tsodikov AD, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Thermodynamic calculations and statistical correlations for oligo-probes design. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:4211-7. [PMID: 12853639 PMCID: PMC167637 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Optimization of probe design for array-based experiments requires improved predictability of oligonucleotide hybridization behavior. Currently, designing oligonucleotides capable of interacting efficiently and specifically with the relevant target is not a routine procedure. Multiple examples demonstrate that oligonucleotides targeting different regions of the same RNA differ in their hybridization ability. The present work shows how thermodynamic evaluations of oligo-target duplex or oligo self-structure stabilities can facilitate probe design. Statistical analysis of large sets of hybridization data reveals that thermodynamic evaluation of oligonucleotide properties can be used to avoid poor RNA binders. Thermodynamic criteria for the selection of 20 and 21mers, which, with high probability, interact efficiently and specifically with their targets, are suggested. The design of longer oligonucleotides can also be facilitated by the same calculations of DeltaG(o) (T) values for oligo-target duplex or oligo self-structure stabilities and similar selection schemes.
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- O V Matveeva
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
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Atkins JF, Baranov PV, Fayet O, Herr AJ, Howard MT, Ivanov IP, Matsufuji S, Miller WA, Moore B, Prère MF, Wills NM, Zhou J, Gesteland RF. Overriding standard decoding: implications of recoding for ribosome function and enrichment of gene expression. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 2003; 66:217-32. [PMID: 12762024 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2001.66.217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- J F Atkins
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5330, USA
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Hill KE, Zhou J, McMahan WJ, Motley AK, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, Burk RF. Deletion of selenoprotein P alters distribution of selenium in the mouse. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:13640-6. [PMID: 12574155 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300755200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 331] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Selenoprotein P (Se-P) contains most of the selenium in plasma. Its function is not known. Mice with the Se-P gene deleted (Sepp(-/-)) were generated. Two phenotypes were observed: 1) Sepp(-/-) mice lost weight and developed poor motor coordination when fed diets with selenium below 0.1 mg/kg, and 2) male Sepp(-/-) mice had sharply reduced fertility. Weanling male Sepp(+/+), Sepp(+/-), and Sepp(-/-) mice were fed diets for 8 weeks containing <0.02-2 mg selenium/kg. Sepp(+/+) and Sepp(+/-) mice had similar selenium concentrations in all tissues except plasma where a gene-dose effect on Se-P was observed. Liver selenium was unaffected by Se-P deletion except that it increased when dietary selenium was below 0.1 mg/kg. Selenium in other tissues exhibited a continuum of responses to Se-P deletion. Testis selenium was depressed to 19% in mice fed an 0.1 mg selenium/kg diet and did not rise to Sepp(+/+) levels even with a dietary selenium of 2 mg/kg. Brain selenium was depressed to 43%, but feeding 2 mg selenium/kg diet raised it to Sepp(+/+) levels. Kidney was depressed to 76% and reached Sepp(+/+) levels on an 0.25 mg selenium/kg diet. Heart selenium was not affected. These results suggest that the Sepp(-/-) phenotypes were caused by low selenium in testis and brain. They strongly suggest that Se-P from liver provides selenium to several tissues, especially testis and brain. Further, they indicate that transport forms of selenium other than Se-P exist because selenium levels of all tissues except testis responded to increases of dietary selenium in Sepp(-/-) mice.
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- Kristina E Hill
- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
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The RECODE database is a compilation of translational recoding events (programmed ribosomal frameshifting, codon redefinition and translational bypass). The database provides information about the genes utilizing these events for their expression, recoding sites, stimulatory sequences and other relevant information. The Database is freely available at http://recode.genetics.utah.edu/.
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- Pavel V Baranov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Giddings MC, Shah AA, Freier S, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, Matveeva OV. Artificial neural network prediction of antisense oligodeoxynucleotide activity. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:4295-304. [PMID: 12364609 PMCID: PMC140555 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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An mRNA transcript contains many potential antisense oligodeoxynucleotide target sites. Identification of the most efficacious targets remains an important and challenging problem. Building on separate work that revealed a strong correlation between the inclusion of short sequence motifs and the activity level of an oligo, we have developed a predictive artificial neural network system for mapping tetranucleotide motif content to antisense oligo activity. Trained for high-specificity prediction, the system has been cross-validated against a database of 348 oligos from the literature and a larger proprietary database of 908 oligos. In cross- validation tests the system identified effective oligos (i.e. oligos capable of reducing target mRNA expression to <25% that of the control) with 53% accuracy, in contrast to the <10% success rates commonly reported for trial-and-error oligo selection, suggesting a possible 5-fold reduction in the in vivo screening required to find an active oligo. We have implemented a web interface to a trained neural network. Given an RNA transcript as input, the system identifies the most likely oligo targets and provides estimates of the probabilities that oligos targeted against these sites will be effective.
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- Michael C Giddings
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, SLC, UT 84112, USA and. Isis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, CA 92008, USA.
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Shah AA, Giddings MC, Parvaz JB, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Ivanov IP. Computational identification of putative programmed translational frameshift sites. Bioinformatics 2002; 18:1046-53. [PMID: 12176827 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.8.1046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION In an effort to identify potential programmed frameshift sites by statistical analysis, we explore the hypothesis that selective pressure would have rendered such sites underabundant and underrepresented in protein-coding sequences. We developed a computer program to compare the frequencies of k-length subsequences of nucleotides with the frequencies predicted by a zero order Markov chain determined by the codon bias of the same set of sequences. The program was used to calculate and evaluate the distribution of 7-base oligonucleotides in the 6000+ putative protein-coding sequences of S. cerevisiae preliminary to the laboratory testing of the most highly underrepresented oligos for frameshifting efficiency. RESULTS Among the most significant results is the finding that the heptanucleotides CUU-AGG-C and CUU-AGU-U, sites of the programmed +1 translational frameshifts required for the production in yeast of actin filament-binding protein ABP140 and telomerase subunit EST3, respectively, rank among the least represented of phase I heptanucleotides in the coding sequences of S. cerevisiae. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that other underrepresented heptanucleotides identified by the program, for example GGU-CAG-A, are also prone to significant translational frameshifting, suggesting the possibility that genes containing other underrepresented heptamers may also encode transframe products. AVAILABILITY The program is available for download from http://www.gesteland.genetics.utah.edu/freqAnalysis SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Complete results from the analysis of S. cerevisiae are available on http://www.gesteland.genetics.utah.edu/freqAnalysis
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- Atul A Shah
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, SLC, 84112-5330, USA
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Wang Y, Wills NM, Du Z, Rangan A, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF, Hoffman DW. Comparative studies of frameshifting and nonframeshifting RNA pseudoknots: a mutational and NMR investigation of pseudoknots derived from the bacteriophage T2 gene 32 mRNA and the retroviral gag-pro frameshift site. RNA 2002; 8:981-96. [PMID: 12212853 PMCID: PMC1370320 DOI: 10.1017/s1355838202024044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Mutational and NMR methods were used to investigate features of sequence, structure, and dynamics that are associated with the ability of a pseudoknot to stimulate a -1 frameshift. In vitro frameshift assays were performed on retroviral gag-pro frameshift-stimulating pseudoknots and their derivatives, a pseudoknot from the gene 32 mRNA of bacteriophage T2 that is not naturally associated with frameshifting, and hybrids of these pseudoknots. Results show that the gag-pro pseudoknot from human endogenous retrovirus-K10 (HERV) stimulates a -1 frameshift with an efficiency similar to that of the closely related retrovirus MMTV. The bacteriophage T2 mRNA pseudoknot was found to be a poor stimulator of frameshifting, supporting a hypothesis that the retroviral pseudoknots have distinctive properties that make them efficient frameshift stimulators. A hybrid, designed by combining features of the bacteriophage and retroviral pseudoknots, was found to stimulate frameshifting while retaining significant structural similarity to the nonframeshifting bacteriophage pseudoknot. Mutational analyses of the retroviral and hybrid pseudoknots were used to evaluate the effects of an unpaired (wedged) adenosine at the junction of the pseudoknot stems, changing the base pairs near the junction of the two stems, and changing the identity of the loop 2 nucleotide nearest the junction of the stems. Pseudoknots both with and without the wedged adenosine can stimulate frameshifting, though the identities of the nucleotides near the stem1/stem2 junction do influence efficiency. NMR data showed that the bacteriophage and hybrid pseudoknots are similar in their local structure at the junction of the stems, indicating that pseudoknots that are similar in this structural feature can differ radically in their ability to stimulate frameshifting. NMR methods were used to compare the internal motions of the bacteriophage T2 pseudoknot and representative frameshifting pseudoknots. The stems of the investigated pseudoknots are similarly well ordered on the time scales to which nitrogen-15 relaxation data are sensitive; however, solvent exchange rates for protons at the junction of the two stems of the nonframeshifting bacteriophage pseudoknot are significantly slower than the analogous protons in the representative frameshifting pseudoknots.
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- Yue Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
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The mRNA encoding Escherichia coli polypeptide chain release factor 2 (RF2) has two partially overlapping reading frames. Synthesis of RF2 involves ribosomes shifting to the +1 reading frame at the end of the first open reading frame (ORF). Frameshifting serves an autoregulatory function. The RF2 gene sequences from the 86 additional bacterial species now available have been analyzed. Thirty percent of them have a single ORF and their expression does not require frameshifting. In the approximately 70% that utilize frameshifting, the sequence cassette responsible for frameshifting is highly conserved. In the E. coli RF2 gene, an internal Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence just before the shift site was shown earlier to be important for frameshifting. Mutagenic data presented here show that the spacer region between the SD sequence and the shift site influences frameshifting, and possible mechanisms are discussed. Internal translation initiation occurs at the shift site, but any functional role is obscure.
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- Pavel V Baranov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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During the expression of a certain genes standard decoding is over-ridden in a site or mRNA specific manner. This recoding occurs in response to special signals in mRNA and probably occurs in all organisms. This review deals with the function and distribution of recoding with a focus on the ribosomal frameshifting used for gene expression in bacteria.
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- Pavel V Baranov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Bertrand C, Prère MF, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Fayet O. Influence of the stacking potential of the base 3' of tandem shift codons on -1 ribosomal frameshifting used for gene expression. RNA 2002; 8:16-28. [PMID: 11871658 PMCID: PMC1370227 DOI: 10.1017/s1355838202012086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Translating ribosomes can shift reading frame at specific sites with high efficiency for gene expression purposes. The most common type of shift to the -1 frame involves a tandem realignment of two anticodons from pairing with mRNA sequence of the form X XXY YYZ to XXX YYY Z where the spaces indicate the reading frame. The predominant -1 shift site of this type in eubacteria is A AAA AAG. The present work shows that in Escherichia coli the identity of the 6 nt 3' of this sequence can be responsible for a 14-fold variation in frameshift frequency. The first 3' nucleotide has the primary effect, with, in order of decreasing efficiency, U > C > A > G. This effect is independent of other stimulators of frameshifting. It is detected with other X XXA AAG sequences, but not with several other heptameric -1 shift sites. Pairing of E. coli tRNALYS with AAG is especially weak at the third codon position. We propose that strong stacking of purines 3' of AAG stabilizes pairing of tRNALys, diminishing the chance of codon:anticodon dissociation that is a prerequisite for the realignment involved in frameshifting.
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- Claire Bertrand
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Université Paul Sabatier-UMR5100, Toulouse, France
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- J F Atkins
- John F. Atkins and Raymond F. Gesteland are in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5330, USA
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Howard MT, Shirts BH, Zhou J, Carlson CL, Matsufuji S, Gesteland RF, Weeks RS, Atkins JF. Cell culture analysis of the regulatory frameshift event required for the expression of mammalian antizymes. Genes Cells 2001; 6:931-41. [PMID: 11733031 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2001.00477.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Antizyme is a critical regulator of cellular polyamine levels due to its effect on polyamine transport and its ability to target ornithine decarboxylase for degradation. Antizyme expression is autoregulatory, through dependence on an unusual +1 translational frameshift mechanism that responds to polyamine levels. RESULTS HEK293 cells were depleted of polyamines by treatment with an ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor, difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), and grown in the presence or absence of exogenous polyamines prior to the analysis of ribosomal frameshifting levels. Results obtained using an optimized dual luciferase assay system reveal a 10-fold dynamic range of frameshifting, which correlates positively with polyamine addition. Polyamine addition to cells, which have not been pre-treated with DFMO, also resulted in an increase in antizyme frameshifting but to a lesser degree (1.3 to 1.5-fold). In addition, the constructs with the 3' deletion were more responsive to stimulation by polyamine addition than those with the 5' deletion. CONCLUSIONS The observed regulation of antizyme frameshifting demonstrates the efficiency of a polyamine homeostatic mechanism, and illustrates the utility of a quantifiable cell-based assay for the analysis of polyamines or their analogues on translational frameshifting.
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- M T Howard
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15 N 2030 E., Rm. 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Ribosomes bypass a 50 nucleotide non-coding segment of mRNA between the two open reading frames of bacteriophage T4 gene 60 in order to synthesize a topoisomerase subunit. While nearly all ribosomes appear to initiate bypassing, only 50 % resume translation in the second open reading frame. Failure to bypass is shown here to be independent of the stop codon at the end of the first open reading frame and to be amplified by mutant variants of tRNA(Gly)(2) known to diminish bypassing efficiency. Unproductive bypassing may result from premature dissociation of peptidyl-tRNAs from ribosomes (drop-off) or resumption of translation at inappropriate sites. Assessment of the influence of factors known to induce drop-off reveals that ribosome recycling factor accounts for a small fraction of unproductive bypassing products, but none of the other known factors appear to play a significant role. Resumption of translation at inappropriate sites appears to be minimal, which suggests that spontaneous release of the peptidyl-tRNA may account for the remaining unproductive bypassing products and may be inherent to the gene 60 bypassing mechanism.
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- A J Herr
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 2030 E. 15N., Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Herr AJ, Nelson CC, Wills NM, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Analysis of the roles of tRNA structure, ribosomal protein L9, and the bacteriophage T4 gene 60 bypassing signals during ribosome slippage on mRNA. J Mol Biol 2001; 309:1029-48. [PMID: 11399077 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A 50-nucleotide coding gap divides bacteriophage T4 gene 60 into two open reading frames. In response to cis-acting stimulatory signals encrypted in the mRNA, the anticodon of the ribosome-bound peptidyl tRNA dissociates from a GGA codon at the end of the first open reading frame and pairs with a GGA codon 47 nucleotides downstream just before the second open reading frame. Mutations affecting ribosomal protein L9 or tRNA(Gly)(2), the tRNA that decodes GGA, alter the efficiency of bypassing. To understand the mechanism of ribosome slippage, this work analyzes the influence of these bypassing signals and mutant translational components on -1 frameshifting at G GGA and hopping over a stop codon immediately flanked by two GGA glycine codons (stop-hopping). Mutant variants of tRNA(Gly)(2) that impair bypassing mediate stop-hopping with unexpected landing specificities, suggesting that these variants are defective in ribosomal P-site codon-anticodon pairing. In a direct competition between -1 frameshifting and stop-hopping, the absence of L9 promotes stop-hopping at the expense of -1 frameshifting without substantially impairing the ability of mutant tRNA(Gly)(2) variants to re-pair with the mRNA by sub-optimal pairing. These observations suggest that L9 defects may stimulate ribosome slippage by enhancing mRNA movement through the ribosome rather than by inducing an extended pause in translation or by destabilizing P-site pairing. Two of the bypassing signals, a cis-acting nascent peptide encoded by the first open reading frame and a stemloop signal located in the 5' portion of the coding gap, stimulate peptidyl-tRNA slippage independently of the rest of the gene 60 context. Evidence is presented suggesting that the nascent peptide signal may stimulate bypassing by destabilizing P-site pairing.
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- A J Herr
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 2030 E 15N, RM 7410, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-5330, USA
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Felden B, Massire C, Westhof E, Atkins JF, Gesteland RF. Phylogenetic analysis of tmRNA genes within a bacterial subgroup reveals a specific structural signature. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:1602-7. [PMID: 11266563 PMCID: PMC31281 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.7.1602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bacterial tmRNA mediates a trans-translation reaction, which permits the recycling of stalled ribosomes and probably also contributes to the regulated expression of a subset of genes. Its action results in the addition of a small number of C-terminal amino acids to protein whose synthesis had stalled and these constitute a proteolytic recognition tag for the degradation of these incompletely synthesized proteins. Previous work has identified pseudoknots and stem-loops that are widely conserved in divergent bacteria. In the present work an alignment of tmRNA gene sequences within 13 beta-proteobacteria reveals an additional sub-structure specific for this bacterial group. This sub-structure is in pseudoknot Pk2, and consists of one to two additional stem-loop(s) capped by stable GNRA tetraloop(s). Three-dimensional models of tmRNA pseudoknot 2 (Pk2) containing various topological versions of the additional sub-structure suggest that the sub-structures likely point away from the core of the RNA, containing both the tRNA and the mRNA domains. A putative tertiary interaction has also been identified.
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- B Felden
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 6250, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA.
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Translational bypassing joins the information found within two disparate open reading frames into a single polypeptide chain. The underlying mechanism centers on the decoding properties of peptidyl-transfer RNA (tRNA) and involves three stages: take-off, scanning, and landing. In take-off, the peptidyl-tRNA/messenger RNA (mRNA) complex in the P site of the ribosome dissociates, and the mRNA begins to move through the ribosome. In scanning, the peptidyl-tRNA probes the mRNA sliding through the decoding center. In landing, the peptidyl-tRNA re-pairs with a codon with which it can form a stable interaction. Although few examples of genes are known that rely on translational bypassing to couple open reading frames, ribosomes appear to have an innate capacity for bypassing. This suggests that the strategy of translational bypassing may be more common than presently appreciated. The best characterized example of this phenomenon is T4 gene 60, in which a complex set of signals stimulates bypassing of 50 nucleotides between the two open reading frames. In this review, we focus on the bypassing mechanism of gene 60 in terms of take-off, scanning, and landing.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Genes, Bacterial
- Models, Biological
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Open Reading Frames
- Peptide Chain Termination, Translational
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Protein Sorting Signals/genetics
- RNA, Bacterial/genetics
- RNA, Bacterial/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/metabolism
- Ribosomal Proteins/genetics
- Ribosomal Proteins/metabolism
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- A J Herr
- Department of Human Genetics, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5330, USA.
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Baranov PV, Gurvich OL, Fayet O, Prère MF, Miller WA, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Giddings MC. RECODE: a database of frameshifting, bypassing and codon redefinition utilized for gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:264-7. [PMID: 11125107 PMCID: PMC29850 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.1.264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The RECODE database is a compilation of 'programmed' translational recoding events taken from the scientific literature and personal communications. The database deals with programmed ribosomal frameshifting, codon redefinition and translational bypass occurring in a variety of organisms. The entries for each event include the sequences of the corresponding genes, their encoded proteins for both the normal and alternate decoding, the types of the recoding events involved, trans-factors and cis-elements that influence recoding. The database is freely available at http://recode.genetics. utah.edu/.
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- P V Baranov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Moore B, Nelson CC, Persson BC, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Decoding of tandem quadruplets by adjacent tRNAs with eight-base anticodon loops. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:3615-24. [PMID: 10982884 PMCID: PMC110719 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.18.3615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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To expand the genetic code for specification of multiple non-natural amino acids, unique codons for these novel amino acids are needed. As part of a study of the potential of quadruplets as codons, the decoding of tandem UAGA quadruplets by an engineered tRNA(Leu) with an eight-base anticodon loop, has been investigated. When GCC is the codon immediately 5' of the first UAGA quadruplet, and release factor 1 is partially inactivated, the tandem UAGAs specify two leucines with an overall efficiency of at least 10%. The presence of a purine at anticodon loop position 32 of the tRNA decoding the codon 5' to the first UAGA seems to influence translation of the following codon. Another finding is intraribosomal dissociation of anticodons from codons and their re-pairing to mRNA at overlapping or nearby codons. In one case where GCC is replaced by CGG, only a single Watson-Crick base pair can form upon re-pairing when decoding is resumed. This has implications for the mechanism of some cases of programmed frameshifting.
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- B Moore
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15 N. 2030 E. Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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SUMMARY ODNBase is a database of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides targeted to mammalian mRNAs that were reported in the literature. It includes the oligo sequences tested, the measured effectiveness, the RNA that was targeted, the type of measurement assay used, the oligo concentration applied, and the reference for each oligo. It provides a searchable interface by motif content, activity level, applied concentration and RNA name. Oligo lists matching search criteria can be downloaded in a spreadsheet compatible format.
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- M C Giddings
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, SLC, UT 84112, USA.
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Ivanov IP, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Antizyme expression: a subversion of triplet decoding, which is remarkably conserved by evolution, is a sensor for an autoregulatory circuit. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:3185-96. [PMID: 10954585 PMCID: PMC110703 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.17.3185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2000] [Revised: 06/30/2000] [Accepted: 07/07/2000] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The efficiency of programmed ribosomal frameshifting in decoding antizyme mRNA is the sensor for an autoregulatory circuit that controls cellular polyamine levels in organisms ranging from the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe to Drosophila to mammals. Comparison of the frameshift sites and flanking stimulatory signals in many organisms now permits a reconstruction of the likely evolutionary path of the remarkably conserved mRNA sequences involved in the frameshifting.
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- I P Ivanov
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E, Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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Howard MT, Shirts BH, Petros LM, Flanigan KM, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Sequence specificity of aminoglycoside-induced stop condon readthrough: potential implications for treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Ann Neurol 2000; 48:164-9. [PMID: 10939566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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As a result of their ability to induce translational readthrough of stop codons, the aminoglycoside antibiotics are currently being tested for efficacy in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients carrying a nonsense mutation in the dystrophin gene. We have undertaken a systematic analysis of aminoglycoside-induced readthrough of each stop codon in human tissue culture cells using a dual luciferase reporter system. Significant differences in the efficiency of aminoglycoside-induced readthrough were observed, with UGA showing greater translational readthrough than UAG or UAA. Additionally, the nucleotide in the position immediately downstream from the stop codon had a significant impact on the efficiency of aminoglycoside-induced readthrough in the order C > U > A > or = G. Our studies show that the efficiency of stop codon readthrough in the presence of aminoglycosides is inversely proportional to the efficiency of translational termination in the absence of these compounds. Using the same assay, we analyzed a 33-base pair fragment of the mouse dystrophin gene containing the mdx premature stop codon mutation UAA (A), which is also the most efficient translational terminator. The additional flanking sequences from the dystrophin gene do not significantly change the relatively low-level aminoglycoside-induced stop codon readthrough of this stop codon. The implications of these results for drug efficacy in the treatment of individual patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy or other genetic diseases caused by nonsense mutations are discussed.
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- M T Howard
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
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Matveeva OV, Tsodikov AD, Giddings M, Freier SM, Wyatt JR, Spiridonov AN, Shabalina SA, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF. Identification of sequence motifs in oligonucleotides whose presence is correlated with antisense activity. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:2862-5. [PMID: 10908347 PMCID: PMC102688 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.15.2862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2000] [Revised: 06/19/2000] [Accepted: 06/19/2000] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Design of antisense oligonucleotides targeting any mRNA can be much more efficient when several activity-enhancing motifs are included and activity-decreasing motifs are avoided. This conclusion was made after statistical analysis of data collected from >1000 experiments with phosphorothioate-modified oligonucleotides. Highly significant positive correlation between the presence of motifs CCAC, TCCC, ACTC, GCCA and CTCT in the oligonucleotide and its antisense efficiency was demonstrated. In addition, negative correlation was revealed for the motifs GGGG, ACTG, AAA and TAA. It was found that the likelihood of activity of an oligonucleotide against a desired mRNA target is sequence motif content dependent.
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- O V Matveeva
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15N 2030E Room 7410, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA.
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Translating ribosomes bypass a 50 nt coding gap in order to fuse the information found in the two open reading frames (ORFs) of bacteriophage T4 gene 60. This study investigates the underlying mechanism by focusing on the competition between initiation of bypassing and termination at the end of the first ORF. While nearly all ribosomes initiate bypassing, no more than 50% resume translation in the second ORF. Two previously described cis-acting stimulatory signals are critical for favoring initiation of bypassing over termination. Genetic analysis of these signals supports a working model in which the first (a stem-loop structure at the junction between the first ORF and the coding gap) interferes with decoding in the A-site, and the second (a stretch of amino acids in the nascent peptide encoded by the first ORF) destabilizes peptidyl-tRNA-mRNA pairing.
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- A J Herr
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 2030 E 15N, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330, USA
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