Stop codons preceded by rare arginine codons are efficient determinants of SsrA tagging in Escherichia coli

AUTOR(ES)

Hayes, Christopher S.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The SsrA or tmRNA quality control system intervenes when ribosomes stall on mRNAs and directs the addition of a C-terminal peptide tag that targets the modified polypeptide for degradation. Although hundreds of SsrA-tagged proteins can be detected in cells when degradation is prevented, most of these species have not been identified. Consequently, the mRNA sequence determinants that cause ribosome stalling and SsrA tagging are poorly understood. SsrA tagging of Escherichia coli ribokinase occurs at three specific sites at or near the C terminus of this protein. The sites of tagging correspond to ribosome stalling at the termination codon and at rare AGG codons encoding Arg-307 and Arg-309, the antepenultimate and C-terminal residues of E. coli ribokinase. Mutational analyses and studies of the effects of overexpressing the tRNA that decodes AGG reveal that the combination of a rare arginine codon at the C terminus and the adjacent inefficient UGA termination codon act to recruit the SsrA-tagging system, presumably by slowing the rate of translation elongation and termination.

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