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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2002

Omnipotent decoding potential resides in eukaryotic translation termination factor eRF1 of variant-code organisms and is modulated by the interactions of amino acid sequences within domain 1.

Koichi Ito, Ludmila Frolova, Alim Seit-Nebi, Andrey Karamyshev, Lev Kisselev, Yoshikazu Nakamura

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Koichi ItoDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
Ludmila Frolova
Alim Seit-Nebi
Andrey Karamyshev
Lev Kisselev
Yoshikazu Nakamura
Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology · RUThe University of Tokyo · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In eukaryotes, a single translational release factor, eRF1, deciphers three stop codons, although its decoding mechanism remains puzzling. In the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, UAA and UAG codons are reassigned to Gln codons. A yeast eRF1-domain swap containing Tetrahymena domain 1 responded only to UGA in vitro and failed to complement a defect in yeast eRF1 in vivo at 37 degrees C. This finding demonstrates that decoding specificity of eRF1 from variant code organisms resides at domain 1. However, the wild-type eRF1 hybrid fully restored the growth of eRF1-deficient yeast at 30 degrees C. Tetrahymena eRF1 contains a variant sequence, KATNIKD, at the tip of domain 1. The TASNIKD variant of hybrid eRF1 rendered the eRF1-nullified yeast viable, although in an in vitro assay, the same hybrid eRF1 responded only to UGA. Nevertheless, the yeast eRF1 bearing the KATNIKD motif instead of the TASNIKS heptapeptide present in higher eukaryotes remains omnipotent in vivo. Collectively, these data suggest that variant genetic code organisms like Tetrahymena have an intrinsic potential to decode three stop codons in vivo, and that interaction within domain 1 between the KAT tripeptide and other sequences modulates the decoding specificity of Tetrahymena eRF1.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceCodon, TerminatorDNA PrimersGenetic Complementation TestMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, Site-DirectedPeptide Termination FactorsSchizosaccharomycesSequence Homology, Amino AcidTetrahymenaCodon, TerminatorDNA PrimersPeptide Termination Factors

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PMID12084909
PMCPMC124286
OpenAlexW2166204754

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