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Letters to the editor: Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of protein-RNA interactions. I. The elongation factor Tu-GTP aminoacyl-tRNA complex 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
The 300 MHz high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of hydrogen-bonded protons in Escherichia coli tRNAGlu and yeast tRNAPhe have previously been reported and the resolved resonances assigned to specific base-pairs. Here we show that in complexes of these two tRNAs with elongation factor Tu there is no discernible loss of base-paired protons. Within the experimental accuracy this means that no helical arms open upon complex formation. 相似文献
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Sébastien P. Blais Jack A. Kornblatt Xavier Barbeau Guillaume Bonnaure Patrick Lagüe Robert Chênevert Jacques Lapointe 《PloS one》2015,10(4)
For tRNA-dependent protein biosynthesis, amino acids are first activated by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) yielding the reaction intermediates aminoacyl-AMP (aa-AMP). Stable analogues of aa-AMP, such as aminoacyl-sulfamoyl-adenosines, inhibit their cognate aaRSs. Glutamyl-sulfamoyl-adenosine (Glu-AMS) is the best known inhibitor of Escherichia coli glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (GluRS). Thermodynamic parameters of the interactions between Glu-AMS and E. coli GluRS were measured in the presence and in the absence of tRNA by isothermal titration microcalorimetry. A significant entropic contribution for the interactions between Glu-AMS and GluRS in the absence of tRNA or in the presence of the cognate tRNAGlu or of the non-cognate tRNAPhe is indicated by the negative values of –TΔSb, and by the negative value of ΔCp. On the other hand, the large negative enthalpy is the dominant contribution to ΔGb in the absence of tRNA. The affinity of GluRS for Glu-AMS is not altered in the presence of the non-cognate tRNAPhe, but the dissociation constant K
d is decreased 50-fold in the presence of tRNAGlu; this result is consistent with molecular dynamics results indicating the presence of an H-bond between Glu-AMS and the 3’-OH oxygen of the 3’-terminal ribose of tRNAGlu in the Glu-AMS•GluRS•tRNAGlu complex. Glu-AMS being a very close structural analogue of Glu-AMP, its weak binding to free GluRS suggests that the unstable Glu-AMP reaction intermediate binds weakly to GluRS; these results could explain why all the known GluRSs evolved to activate glutamate only in the presence of tRNAGlu, the coupling of glutamate activation to its transfer to tRNA preventing unproductive cleavage of ATP. 相似文献
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Osamu Nureki Patrick O’Donoghue Nobuhisa Watanabe Atsuhiko Ohmori Hiroyuki Oshikane Yuhei Araiso Kelly Sheppard Dieter S?ll Ryuichiro Ishitani 《Nucleic acids research》2010,38(20):7286-7297
The molecular basis of the genetic code relies on the specific ligation of amino acids to their cognate tRNA molecules. However, two pathways exist for the formation of Gln-tRNAGln. The evolutionarily older indirect route utilizes a non-discriminating glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (ND-GluRS) that can form both Glu-tRNAGlu and Glu-tRNAGln. The Glu-tRNAGln is then converted to Gln-tRNAGln by an amidotransferase. Since the well-characterized bacterial ND-GluRS enzymes recognize tRNAGlu and tRNAGln with an unrelated α-helical cage domain in contrast to the β-barrel anticodon-binding domain in archaeal and eukaryotic GluRSs, the mode of tRNAGlu/tRNAGln discrimination in archaea and eukaryotes was unknown. Here, we present the crystal structure of the Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus ND-GluRS, which is the evolutionary predecessor of both the glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (GlnRS) and the eukaryotic discriminating GluRS. Comparison with the previously solved structure of the Escherichia coli GlnRS-tRNAGln complex reveals the structural determinants responsible for specific tRNAGln recognition by GlnRS compared to promiscuous recognition of both tRNAs by the ND-GluRS. The structure also shows the amino acid recognition pocket of GluRS is more variable than that found in GlnRS. Phylogenetic analysis is used to reconstruct the key events in the evolution from indirect to direct genetic encoding of glutamine. 相似文献
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A minimalist glutamyl-tRNA synthetase dedicated to aminoacylation of the tRNAAsp QUC anticodon
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Blaise M Becker HD Keith G Cambillau C Lapointe J Giegé R Kern D 《Nucleic acids research》2004,32(9):2768-2775
Escherichia coli encodes YadB, a protein displaying 34% identity with the catalytic core of glutamyl-tRNA synthetase but lacking the anticodon-binding domain. We show that YadB is a tRNA modifying enzyme that evidently glutamylates the queuosine residue, a modified nucleoside at the wobble position of the tRNAAsp QUC anticodon. This conclusion is supported by a variety of biochemical data and by the inability of the enzyme to glutamylate tRNAAsp isolated from an E.coli tRNA-guanosine transglycosylase minus strain deprived of the capacity to exchange guanosine 34 with queuosine. Structural mimicry between the tRNAAsp anticodon stem and the tRNAGlu amino acid acceptor stem in prokaryotes encoding YadB proteins indicates that the function of these tRNA modifying enzymes, which we rename glutamyl-Q tRNAAsp synthetases, is conserved among prokaryotes. 相似文献
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Alexander S. Boutorin Brian F.C. Clark Jean Pierre Ebel Torben A. Kruse Hans Uffe Petersen Pierre Remy Stanislav Vassilenko 《Journal of molecular biology》1981,152(3):593-608
The hydrolysis of several aminoacylated transfer RNAs, by double-strand-specific ribonuclease from Naja oxiana was studied. The sensitivity to this enzyme of Phe-tRNAPhe, Glu-tRNAGlu and Met-tRNAmMet from Escherichia coli and Phe-tRNAPhe from yeast was examined, both in the free state and complexed to E. coli elongation factor Tu. The hydrolysis patterns in the isolated state were similar for all aminoacylated tRNAs except Glu-tRNA2Glu, which exhibited striking differences probably arising from the existence of several subpopulations of tRNA2Glu. When engaged in a ternary complex with EF-Tu and GTP, the aminoacyl-tRNAs were efficiently protected in the amino acid acceptor and TΨC helices, showing that the interaction with EF-Tu primarily takes place at the -C-C-A end and at the amino acid acceptor and TΨC helices. In all cases an increased reactivity of the anticodon stem was observed in the complexed tRNA, possibly resulting from a conformational change in this region of the tRNAs. 相似文献
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Damian Labuda Henri Grosjean George Striker Dietmar Pörschke 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression》1982,698(3):230-236
In order to learn about the effect of the G:U wobble interaction we characterized the codon:anticodon binding between triplets: UUC, UUU and yeast tRNAPhe (anticodon GmAA) as well as the anticodon:anticodon binding between Escherichia coli tRNAGlu2, E. coli tRNALys (anticodons: mam5s2UUC, and mam5s2UUU, respectively) and tRNAPhe from yeast and E. coli (anticodon GAA) using equilibrium fluorescence titrations and temperature jump measurements with fluorescence and absorption detection. The difference in stability constants between complexes involving a G:U pair rather than a usual G:C basepair is in the range of one order of magnitude and is mainly due to the shorter lifetime of the complex involving G:U in the wobble position. This difference is more pronounced when the codon triplet is structured, i.e., is built in the anticodon loop of a tRNA. The reaction enthalpies of the anticodon:anticodon complexes involving G:U mismatching were found to be about 4 kcal/mol smaller, and the melting temperatures more than 20°C lower, than those of the corresponding complexes with the G:C basepair. The results are discussed in terms of different strategies that might be used in the cell in order to minimize the effect of different lifetimes of codon-tRNA complexes. Differences in these lifetimes may be used for the modulation of the translation efficiency. 相似文献
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Christine Koehler Adam Round Hannes Simader Dietrich Suck Dmitri Svergun 《Nucleic acids research》2013,41(1):667-676
In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) GluRS and MetRS form a complex with the auxiliary protein cofactor Arc1p. The latter binds the N-terminal domains of both synthetases increasing their affinity for the transfer-RNA (tRNA) substrates tRNAMet and tRNAGlu. Until now, structural information was available only on the enzymatic domains of the individual aaRSs but not on their complexes with associated cofactors. We have analysed the yeast Arc1p-complexes in solution by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The ternary complex of MetRS and GluRS with Arc1p, displays a peculiar extended star-like shape, implying possible flexibility of the complex. We reconstituted in vitro a pentameric complex and demonstrated by electrophoretic mobility shift assay that the complex is active and contains tRNAMet and tRNAGlu, in addition to the three protein partners. SAXS reveals that binding of the tRNAs leads to a dramatic compaction of the pentameric complex compared to the ternary one. A hybrid low-resolution model of the pentameric complex is constructed rationalizing the compaction effect by the interactions of negatively charged tRNA backbones with the positively charged tRNA-binding domains of the synthetases. 相似文献
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Complex formation between transfer RNAs with complementary anticodons: use of matrix bound tRNA 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
It is shown that yeast tRNAPhe, chemically coupled by its oxidized 3′CpCpA end behaves exactly as free tRNAPhe in its ability to form a specific complex with tRNA2Glu having a complementary anticodon. The results support models of tRNA in which the 3′CpCpAOH end and the anticodon are not closely associated in the tertiary structure, and provide a convenient tool of general use to characterize others pairs of tRNA having complementary anticodons, as well as for highly selective purification of certain tRNA species. 相似文献
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Ellen Inga Bruske Franziska Sendfeld Andr�� Schneider 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2009,284(52):36491-36499
All mitochondrial tRNAs in Trypanosoma brucei derive from cytosolic tRNAs that are in part imported into mitochondria. Some trypanosomal tRNAs are thiolated in a compartment-specific manner. We have identified three proteins required for the thio modification of cytosolic tRNAGln, tRNAGlu, and tRNALys. RNA interference-mediated ablation of these proteins results in the cytosolic accumulation non-thio-modified tRNAs but does not increase their import. Moreover, in vitro import experiments showed that both thio-modified and non-thio-modified tRNAGlu can efficiently be imported into mitochondria. These results indicate that unlike previously suggested the cytosol-specific thio modifications do not function as antideterminants for mitochondrial tRNA import. Consistent with these results we showed by using inducible expression of a tagged tRNAGlu that it is mainly the thiolated form that is imported in vivo. Unexpectedly, the imported tRNA becomes dethiolated after import, which explains why the non-thiolated form is enriched in mitochondria. Finally, we have identified two genes required for thiolation of imported tRNATrp whose wobble nucleotide is subject to mitochondrial C to U editing. Interestingly, down-regulation of thiolation resulted in an increase of edited tRNATrp but did not affect growth. 相似文献
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The anticodon-anticodon complex 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Gel electrophoresis has been used to measure the binding between two tRNAs with complementary anticodons, tRNAVal (Escherichia coli) (anticodon X,A,C) and tRNATyr (E. coli) (anticodon Q,U,A). The association constant K at 0 °C was found to be 4 × 105 m?1 which is about three orders of magnitude greater than the association constant for tRNATyr (E. coli) binding its trinucleotide codon UAC. The temperature dependence of K suggests that this results from the rigidity of the anticodon loop. tRNATyr (E. coli) binds an order of magnitude more weakly to tRNAVal (yeast) than to tRNAVal (E. coli), presumably because it contains the wobble base pair A · I. The relationship between the anticodon-anticodon complex and codon recognition is discussed. 相似文献
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delta-Aminolevulinic Acid Biosynthesis from Glutamatein Euglena gracilis: Photocontrol of Enzyme Levels in a Chlorophyll-Free Mutant
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Wild-type Euglena gracillis cells synthesize the key chlorophyll precursor, δ-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), from glutamate in their plastids. The synthesis requires transfer RNAGlu (tRNAGlu) and the three enzymes, glutamyl-tRNA synthetase, glutamyl-tRNA reductase, and glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase. Non-greening mutant Euglena strain W14ZNaIL does not synthesize ALA from glutamate and is devoid of the required tRNAGlu. Other cellular tRNAGlus present in the mutant cells were capable of being charged with glutamate, but the resulting glutamyl-tRNAs did not support ALA synthesis. Surprisingly, the mutant cells contain all three of the enzymes, and their cell extracts can convert glutamate to ALA when supplemented with tRNAGlu obtained from wild-type cells. Activity levels of the three enzymes were measured in extracts of cells grown under a number of light conditions. All three activities were diminished in extracts of cells grown in complete darkness, and full induction of activity required 72 hours of growth in the light. A light intensity of 4 microeinsteins per square meter per second was sufficient for full induction. Blue light was as effective as white light, but red light was ineffective, in inducing extractable enzyme activity above that of cells grown in complete darkness, indicating that the light control operates via the nonchloroplast blue light receptor in the mutant cells. Of the three enzyme activities, the one that is most acutely affected by light is glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase, as has been previously shown for wild-type Euglena cells. These results indicate that the enzymes required for ALA synthesis from glutamate are present in an active form in the nongreening mutant cells, even though they cannot participate in ALA formation in these cells because of the absence of the required tRNAGlu, and that the activity of all three enzymes is regulated by light. Because the absence of plastid tRNAGlu precludes the synthesis of proteins within the plastids, the three enzymes must be synthesized in the cytoplasm and their genes encoded in the nucleus in Euglena. 相似文献
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Jacques Dainat F. de Balbian Verster R. Zand O. Z. Sellinger 《Neurochemical research》1979,4(5):557-565
The activity of tRNA methyltransferases present in the cerebellum of 6- and 21-day-old nonicteric and icteric Gunn rats was compared using purifiedE. coli tRNAs as substrates. At 6 days the tRNA methyltransferases of the icteric animals were significantly more effective in methylating tRNAGlu
2 and tRNAPhe than were those of their nonicteric counterparts. This relationship reversed itself at 21 days. The action of the tRNA methyltransferases from the 6-day-old icteric animals led to higher proportions of 1-methyladenine in tRNAGlu
2 and tRNAPhe than were obtained using the corresponding enzymes of the nonicteric animals. The proportion ofN
2-methylguanine was also higher, yet only in tRNAfMet and not in tRNAPhe. The study reveals much more extensive fluctuations in the activity and in the substrate recognition specificity among the cerebellar tRNA methyltransferases of the icteric than among those of the nonicteric controls during the crucial 6–21 day period of cerebellar development. 相似文献
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Kazuyuki Nagamatsu 《Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics》2013,31(4):729-739
Abstract Fluorophore of proflavine was introduced onto the 3′-terminal ribose moiety of yeast tRNAPhe. The distance between the fluorophore and the fluorescent Y base in the anticodon of yeast tRNAPhe was measured by a singlet-singlet energy transfer. Conformational changes of tRNAPhe with binding of tRNAGlu 2, which has the anticodon UUC complementary to the anticodon GAA of tRNAPhe, were investigated. The distance obtained at the ionic strength of 100 mM K+ and 10 mM Mg2+ is very close to the distance from x-ray diffraction, while the distance obtained in the presence of tRNAGlu 2 is significantly smaller. Further, using a fluorescent probe of 4-bromomethl-7-methoxycoumarin introduced onto pseudouridine residue Ψ55 in the TΨC loop of tRNAPhe, Stern-Volmer quenching experiments for the probe with or without added tRNAGlu 2were carried out. The results showed greater access of the probe to the quencher with added tRNAGlu 2. These results suggest that both arms of the L-shaped tRNA structure tend to bend inside with binding of tRNAGlu 2 and some structural collapse occurs at the corner of the L-shaped structure. 相似文献
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Mitochondrial glutamyl-tRNA isolated from mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was separated into two distinct species by re versed-phase chromatography. The migration of the two mitochondrial glutamyl-tRNAs (tRNAIGlu and tRNAIIGlu) differed from that of two glutamyl-tRNA species found in the cytoplasm of a mitochondrial DNA-less petite strain. Both mitochondrial tRNAs hybridized with mitochondrial DNA. Three lines of evidence demonstrate that mitochondrial tRNAIGlu and tRNAIIGlu are transcribed from different mitochondrial cistrons. First the level of hybridization of a mixture of the two tRNAs to mitochondrial DNA was equal to the sum of the saturation hybridization levels of each glutamyl-tRNA alone. Second, the two mitochondrial glutamyl-tRNAs did not compete with each other in hybridization competition experiments. Finally the tRNAs showed individual hybridization patterns with different petite mitochondrial DNAs.Hybridization of the tRNAs to mitochondrial DNA of genetically defined petite strains localized each tRNA with respect to antibiotic resistance markers. The two glutamyl-tRNA cistrons were spatially separated on the genetic map. 相似文献
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Discrimination of tRNAGln is an integral function of several bacterial glutamyl-tRNA synthetases (GluRS). The origin of the discrimination is thought to arise from unfavorable interactions between tRNAGln and the anticodon-binding domain of GluRS. From experiments on an anticodon-binding domain truncated Escherichia coli (E. coli) GluRS (catalytic domain) and a chimeric protein, constructed from the catalytic domain of E. coli GluRS and the anticodon-binding domain of E. coli glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (GlnRS), we show that both proteins discriminate against E. coli tRNAGln. Our results demonstrate that in addition to the anticodon-binding domain, tRNAGln discriminatory elements may be present in the catalytic domain in E. coli GluRS as well. 相似文献
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Blaise M Olieric V Sauter C Lorber B Roy B Karmakar S Banerjee R Becker HD Kern D 《Journal of molecular biology》2008,381(5):1224-1237
Glutamyl-queuosine tRNAAsp synthetase (Glu-Q-RS) from Escherichia coli is a paralog of the catalytic core of glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (GluRS) that catalyzes glutamylation of queuosine in the wobble position of tRNAAsp. Despite important structural similarities, Glu-Q-RS and GluRS diverge strongly by their functional properties. The only feature common to both enzymes consists in the activation of Glu to form Glu-AMP, the intermediate of transfer RNA (tRNA) aminoacylation. However, both enzymes differ by the mechanism of selection of the cognate amino acid and by the mechanism of its activation. Whereas GluRS selects l-Glu and activates it only in the presence of the cognate tRNAGlu, Glu-Q-RS forms Glu-AMP in the absence of tRNA. Moreover, while GluRS transfers the activated Glu to the 3′ accepting end of the cognate tRNAGlu, Glu-Q-RS transfers the activated Glu to Q34 located in the anticodon loop of the noncognate tRNAAsp. In order to gain insight into the structural elements leading to distinct mechanisms of amino acid activation, we solved the three-dimensional structure of Glu-Q-RS complexed to Glu and compared it to the structure of the GluRS·Glu complex. Comparison of the catalytic site of Glu-Q-RS with that of GluRS, combined with binding experiments of amino acids, shows that a restricted number of residues determine distinct catalytic properties of amino acid recognition and activation by the two enzymes. Furthermore, to explore the structural basis of the distinct aminoacylation properties of the two enzymes and to understand why Glu-Q-RS glutamylates only tRNAAsp among the tRNAs possessing queuosine in position 34, we performed a tRNA mutational analysis to search for the elements of tRNAAsp that determine recognition by Glu-Q-RS. The analyses made on tRNAAsp and tRNAAsn show that the presence of a C in position 38 is crucial for glutamylation of Q34. The results are discussed in the context of the evolution and adaptation of the tRNA glutamylation system. 相似文献
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According to the conserved sequences flanking the 3′ end of the 16S and the 5′ end of the 23S rDNAs, PCR primers were designed, and the 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacers (IGSs) of two strains of Vibrio vulnificus were amplified by PCR and cloned into pGEM-T vector. Different clones were selected to be sequenced and the sequences were analyzed with BLAST and the software DNAstar. Analyses of the IGS sequences suggested that the strain ZSU006 contains five types of polymorphic 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacers, namely, IGSGLAV, IGSGLV, IGSlA, IGSG and IGSA; while the strain CG021 has the same types of IGSs except lacking IGSA. Among these five IGS types, IGSGLAV is the biggest type, including the gene cluster of tRNAGlu - tRNALys - tRNAAla - tRNAVal; IGSGLV includes that of tRNAGlu-tRNALys-tRNAVal; IGSAG, tRNAAla-tRNAGlu; IGSIA, tRNAIle-tRNAAla; IGSG, tRNAGlu and IGSA, tRNAAla. Intraspecies multiple alignment of all the IGS sequences of these two strains with those of V. vulnificus ATCC27562 available at GenBank revealed several highly conserved sequence blocks in the non-coding regions flanking the tRNA genes within all of strains, most notably the first 40 and last 200 nucleotides, which can be targeted to design species-specific PCR primers or detection probes. The structural variations of the 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacers lay a foundation for developing diagnostic methods for V. vulnificus. 相似文献