TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kogure, Hiroyuki
A1  - Handa, Yoshihiro
A1  - Nagata, Masahiro
A1  - Kanai, Naoto
A1  - Güntert, Peter
A1  - Kubota, Kenji
A1  - Nameki, Nobukazu
T1  - Identification of residues required for stalled-ribosome rescue in the codon-independent release factor YaeJ
T2  - Nucleic acids research
N2  - The YaeJ protein is a codon-independent release factor with peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis (PTH) activity, and functions as a stalled-ribosome rescue factor in Escherichia coli. To identify residues required for YaeJ function, we performed mutational analysis for in vitro PTH activity towards rescue of ribosomes stalled on a non-stop mRNA, and for ribosome-binding efficiency. We focused on residues conserved among bacterial YaeJ proteins. Additionally, we determined the solution structure of the GGQ domain of YaeJ from E. coli using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. YaeJ and a human homolog, ICT1, had similar levels of PTH activity, despite various differences in sequence and structure. While no YaeJ-specific residues important for PTH activity occur in the structured GGQ domain, Arg118, Leu119, Lys122, Lys129 and Arg132 in the following C-terminal extension were required for PTH activity. All of these residues are completely conserved among bacteria. The equivalent residues were also found in the C-terminal extension of ICT1, allowing an appropriate sequence alignment between YaeJ and ICT1 proteins from various species. Single amino acid substitutions for each of these residues significantly decreased ribosome-binding efficiency. These biochemical findings provide clues to understanding how YaeJ enters the A-site of stalled ribosomes.
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/33822
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-338226
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950681/
SN  - 1362-4962
SN  - 0305-1048
N1  - © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 42
IS  - 5
SP  - 3152
EP  - 3163
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -