Publication Date:
2012-03-17
Description:
In bacteria, ribosomes stalled at the end of truncated messages are rescued by transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA), a bifunctional molecule that acts as both a transfer RNA (tRNA) and a messenger RNA (mRNA), and SmpB, a small protein that works in concert with tmRNA. Here, we present the crystal structure of a tmRNA fragment, SmpB and elongation factor Tu bound to the ribosome at 3.2 angstroms resolution. The structure shows how SmpB plays the role of both the anticodon loop of tRNA and portions of mRNA to facilitate decoding in the absence of an mRNA codon in the A site of the ribosome and explains why the tmRNA-SmpB system does not interfere with normal translation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3763467/" 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/PMC3763467/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Neubauer, Cajetan -- Gillet, Reynald -- Kelley, Ann C -- Ramakrishnan, V -- 082086/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 096570/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- MC_U105184332/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- U105184332/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 16;335(6074):1366-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1217039.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22422985" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Anticodon
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Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Base Sequence
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Peptide Elongation Factor Tu/*chemistry/metabolism
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Protein Biosynthesis
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Protein Conformation
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RNA, Bacterial/*chemistry/*metabolism
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RNA, Messenger/chemistry/metabolism
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RNA, Transfer/chemistry/metabolism
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RNA-Binding Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Ribosome Subunits, Small, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure
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Ribosomes/*chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Thermus thermophilus/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure
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
