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ArticleFEBS letters2009

Translation termination in pyrrolysine-utilizing archaea.

Elena Alkalaeva, Boris Eliseev, Alexandre Ambrogelly, Peter Vlasov, Fyodor A Kondrashov, Sharath Gundllapalli, Lyudmila Frolova, Dieter Söll, Lev Kisselev

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Article in FEBS letters, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pyrrolysine supply and demand shapes the translational landscape inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Methanogenic archaea encoding Pyrrolysine maintain ambiguous amber codon usage.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Unconventional genetic code systems in archaea.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022
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  13. Carbon source-dependent expansion of the genetic code in bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012
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  14. Translational recoding in archaea.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2012
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  18. Fidelity in archaeal information processing.Archaea (Vancouver, B.C.) · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Elena AlkalaevaEngelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov str. 32, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Boris Eliseev
Alexandre Ambrogelly
Peter Vlasov
Fyodor A Kondrashov
Sharath Gundllapalli
Lyudmila Frolova
Dieter Söll
Lev Kisselev
Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology · RUYale University · USCentre for Genomic Regulation · ES

Funding

TRANSFER RNAR01GM022854 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SOLL, DIETER · 1985 to 2016
$21.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM022854
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although some data link archaeal and eukaryotic translation, the overall mechanism of protein synthesis in archaea remains largely obscure. Both archaeal (aRF1) and eukaryotic (eRF1) single release factors recognize all three stop codons. The archaeal genus Methanosarcinaceae contains two aRF1 homologs, and also uses the UAG stop to encode the 22nd amino acid, pyrrolysine. Here we provide an analysis of the last stage of archaeal translation in pyrrolysine-utilizing species. We demonstrated that only one of two Methanosarcina barkeri aRF1 homologs possesses activity and recognizes all three stop codons. The second aRF1 homolog may have another unknown function. The mechanism of pyrrolysine incorporation in the Methanosarcinaceae is discussed.

Indexed as

Protein BiosynthesisAmino Acid SequenceArchaeal ProteinsCodon, TerminatorGenome, ArchaealHumansLysineMethanosarcinaceaeMolecular Sequence DataPeptide Termination FactorsPhylogenyArchaeal ProteinsCodon, TerminatorLysinePeptide Termination Factorspyrrolysine

Identifiers

PMID19796638
PMCPMC2857517
OpenAlexW2024429928

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