Presence of the hypermodified nucleotide N6-(delta 2-isopentenyl)-2-methylthioadenosine prevents codon misreading by Escherichia coli phenylalanyl-transfer RNA.
AUTOR(ES)
Wilson, R K
RESUMO
The overall structure of transfer RNA is optimized for its various functions by a series of unique post-transcriptional nucleotide modifications. Since many of these modifications are conserved from prokaryotes through higher eukaryotes, it has been proposed that most modified nucleotides serve to optimize the ability of the tRNA to accurately interact with other components of the protein synthesizing machinery. When a cloned synthetic Escherichia coli tRNAPhe gene was transfected into a bacterial host that carried a defective phenylalanine tRNA-synthetase gene, tRNAPhe was overexpressed by 11-fold. As a result of this overexpression, an undermodified tRNAPhe species was produced that lacked only N6-(delta 2-isopentenyl)-2-methylthioadenosine (ms2i6A), a hypermodified nucleotide found immediately 3' to the anticodon of all major E. coli tRNAs that read UNN codons. To investigate the role of ms2i6A in E. coli tRNA, we compared the aminoacylation kinetics and in vitro codon-reading properties of the ms2i6A-lacking and normal fully modified tRNAPhe species. The results of these experiments indicate that while ms2i6A is not required for normal aminoacylation of tRNAPhe, its presence stabilizes codon-anticodon interaction and thereby prevents misreading of the genetic code.
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