Publication Date:
2014-08-12
Description:
Elongation factor 4 (EF4/LepA) is a highly conserved guanosine triphosphatase translation factor. It was shown to promote back-translocation of tRNAs on posttranslocational ribosome complexes and to compete with elongation factor G for interaction with pretranslocational ribosomes, inhibiting the elongation phase of protein synthesis. Here, we report a crystal structure of EF4-guanosine diphosphate bound to the Thermus thermophilus ribosome with a P-site tRNA at 2.9 angstroms resolution. The C-terminal domain of EF4 reaches into the peptidyl transferase center and interacts with the acceptor stem of the peptidyl-tRNA in the P site. The ribosome is in an unusual state of ratcheting with the 30S subunit rotated clockwise relative to the 50S subunit, resulting in a remodeled decoding center. The structure is consistent with EF4 functioning either as a back-translocase or a ribosome sequester.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gagnon, Matthieu G -- Lin, Jinzhong -- Bulkley, David -- Steitz, Thomas A -- GM022778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Aug 8;345(6197):684-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1253525.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA. ; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA. ; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA. Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA. ; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA. Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA. thomas.steitz@yale.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25104389" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Crystallography, X-Ray
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Escherichia coli Proteins/*chemistry
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Peptide Initiation Factors
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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RNA, Transfer/chemistry
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Ribosome Subunits, Small, Bacterial/*chemistry
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Thermus thermophilus
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Transcriptional Elongation Factors/*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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