Publication Date:
2008-11-08
Description:
The termination of protein synthesis occurs through the specific recognition of a stop codon in the A site of the ribosome by a release factor (RF), which then catalyzes the hydrolysis of the nascent protein chain from the P-site transfer RNA. Here we present, at a resolution of 3.5 angstroms, the crystal structure of RF2 in complex with its cognate UGA stop codon in the 70S ribosome. The structure provides insight into how RF2 specifically recognizes the stop codon; it also suggests a model for the role of a universally conserved GGQ motif in the catalysis of peptide release.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642913/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642913/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Weixlbaumer, Albert -- Jin, Hong -- Neubauer, Cajetan -- Voorhees, Rebecca M -- Petry, Sabine -- Kelley, Ann C -- Ramakrishnan, Venki -- 082086/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- MC_U105184332/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- U.1051.04.018(78935)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 Nov 7;322(5903):953-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1164840.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18988853" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Motifs
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Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Biocatalysis
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*Codon, Terminator/chemistry/metabolism
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Models, Molecular
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*Peptide Chain Termination, Translational
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Peptide Termination Factors/*chemistry/metabolism
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Peptides/metabolism
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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RNA, Bacterial/metabolism
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RNA, Transfer/metabolism
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Ribosome Subunits/chemistry/metabolism
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Ribosomes/chemistry/*metabolism
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Thermus thermophilus/*chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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