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ArticleNucleic acids research2012

2A peptides provide distinct solutions to driving stop-carry on translational recoding.

Pamila Sharma, Fu Yan, Victoria A Doronina, Helena Escuin-Ordinas, Martin D Ryan, Jeremy D Brown

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.

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89 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Pamila SharmaRNA Biology Group and Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.
Fu Yan
Victoria A Doronina
Helena Escuin-Ordinas
Martin D Ryan
Jeremy D Brown

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E009093Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E009093/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E010709/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E/01070911Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H007849/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council C20035Medical Research Council G0901002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Expression of viral proteins frequently includes non-canonical decoding events ('recoding') during translation. '2A' oligopeptides drive one such event, termed 'stop-carry on' recoding. Nascent 2A peptides interact with the ribosomal exit tunnel to dictate an unusual stop codon-independent termination of translation at the final Pro codon of 2A. Subsequently, translation 'reinitiates' on the same codon, two individual proteins being generated from one open reading frame. Many 2A peptides have been identified, and they have a conserved C-terminal motif. Little similarity is present in the N-terminal portions of these peptides, which might suggest that these amino acids are not important in the 2A reaction. However, mutagenesis indicates that identity of the amino acid at nearly all positions of a single 2A peptide is important for activity. Each 2A may then represent a specific solution for positioning the conserved C-terminus within the peptidyl-transferase centre to promote recoding. Nascent 2A peptide:ribosome interactions are suggested to alter ribosomal fine structure to discriminate against prolyl-tRNA(Pro) and promote termination in the absence of a stop codon. Such structural modifications may account for our observation that replacement of the final Pro codon of 2A with any stop codon both stalls ribosome processivity and inhibits nascent chain release.

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Peptide Chain Termination, TranslationalAmino Acid SequenceCodon, TerminatorMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesisPeptidesRibosomesViral ProteinsCodon, TerminatorPeptidesViral Proteinsvirus protein 2A

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PMID22140113
PMCPMC3326317

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