Das, Gautam and Thotala, Dinesh Kumar and Kapoor, Suman and Karunanithi, Sheelarani and Thakur, Suman S and Singh, N Sadananda and Varshney, Umesh (2008) Role of 16S ribosomal RNA methylations in translation initiation in Escherichia coli. In: EMBO Journal, 27 (6). pp. 840-851.
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Translation initiation from the ribosomal P-site is the specialty of the initiator tRNAs (tRNA(fMet)). Presence of the three consecutive G-C base pairs (G29-C41, G30-C40 and G31-C39) in their anticodon stems, a highly conserved feature of the initiator tRNAs across the three kingdoms of life, has been implicated in their preferential binding to the P-site. How this feature is exploited by ribosomes has remained unclear. Using a genetic screen, we have isolated an Escherichia coli strain, carrying a G122D mutation in folD, which allows initiation with the tRNA(fMet) containing mutations in one, two or all the three G-C base pairs. The strain shows a severe deficiency of methionine and S-adenosylmethionine, and lacks nucleoside methylations in rRNA. Targeted mutations in the methyltransferase genes have revealed a connection between the rRNA modifications and the fundamental process of the initiator tRNA selection by the ribosome.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | EMBO Journal |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Nature Publishing Group. |
| Keywords: | S-adenosyl-L-methionine;5,10 methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase;methyltransferase;modified nucleoside;folD. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Microbiology & Cell Biology |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2010 09:05 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2010 09:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/26698 |
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