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ReviewNucleic acids research2001

Misreading of termination codons in eukaryotes by natural nonsense suppressor tRNAs.

H Beier, M Grimm

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Review in Nucleic acids research, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers.

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117citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

117 citing papers in PubMed, 255 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

H BeierInstitut für Biochemie, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Biozentrum, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany. grimm@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
M Grimm
University of Würzburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Translational stop codon readthrough provides a regulatory mechanism of gene expression that is extensively utilised by positive-sense ssRNA viruses. The misreading of termination codons is achieved by a variety of naturally occurring suppressor tRNAs whose structure and function is the subject of this survey. All of the nonsense suppressors characterised to date (with the exception of selenocysteine tRNA) are normal cellular tRNAs that are primarily needed for reading their cognate sense codons. As a consequence, recognition of stop codons by natural suppressor tRNAs necessitates unconventional base pairings in anticodon-codon interactions. A number of intrinsic features of the suppressor tRNA contributes to the ability to read non-cognate codons. Apart from anticodon-codon affinity, the extent of base modifications within or 3' of the anticodon may up- or down-regulate the efficiency of suppression. In order to out-compete the polypeptide chain release factor an absolute prerequisite for the action of natural suppressor tRNAs is a suitable nucleotide context, preferentially at the 3' side of the suppressed stop codon. Three major types of viral readthrough sites, based on similar sequences neighbouring the leaky stop codon, can be defined. It is discussed that not only RNA viruses, but also the eukaryotic host organism might gain some profit from cellular suppressor tRNAs.

Indexed as

Peptide Chain Termination, TranslationalAnimalsBase PairingBase SequenceCodon, TerminatorGene Expression Regulation, ViralMolecular Sequence DataRNA, ChloroplastRNA, TransferRNA, ViralRNA VirusesCodon, TerminatorRNA, ChloroplastRNA, TransferRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID11726686
PMCPMC96686
OpenAlexW2155172429

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