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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2010

The codon specificity of eubacterial release factors is determined by the sequence and size of the recognition loop.

David J Young, Christina D Edgar, Elizabeth S Poole, Warren P Tate

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Atomic mutagenesis of stop codon nucleotides reveals the chemical prerequisites for release factor-mediated peptide release.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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  4. Overexpression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of release factor eRF1-1 from Arabidopsis thaliana.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications · 2013
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David J YoungDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
Christina D Edgar
Elizabeth S Poole
Warren P Tate
University of Otago · NZ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The two codon-specific eubacterial release factors (RF1: UAA/UAG and RF2: UAA/UGA) have specific tripeptide motifs (PXT/SPF) within an exposed recognition loop shown in recent structures to interact with stop codons during protein synthesis termination. The motifs have been inferred to be critical for codon specificity, but this study shows that they are insufficient to determine specificity alone. Swapping the motifs or the entire loop between factors resulted in a loss of codon recognition rather than a switch of codon specificity. From a study of chimeric eubacterial RF1/RF2 recognition loops and an atypical shorter variant in Caenorhabditis elegans mitochondrial RF1 that lacks the classical tripeptide motif PXT, key determinants throughout the whole loop have been defined. It reveals that more than one configuration of the recognition loop based on specific sequence and size can achieve the same desired codon specificity. This study has provided unexpected insight into why a combination of the two factors is necessary in eubacteria to exclude recognition of UGG as stop.

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BacteriaBase SequenceCodonCodon, TerminatorEubacteriumOligopeptidesProtein BiosynthesisProtein Structure, TertiarySensitivity and SpecificityCodonCodon, TerminatorOligopeptides

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PMID20584893
PMCPMC2905760
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