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ArticleNature communications2021

Insights into genome recoding from the mechanism of a classic +1-frameshifting tRNA.

Howard Gamper, Haixing Li, Isao Masuda, D Miklos Robkis, Thomas Christian, Adam B Conn, Gregor Blaha, E James Petersson, Ruben L Gonzalez, Ya-Ming Hou

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 39 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

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Howard GamperDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9007-8546
Haixing LiDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1383-4907
Isao MasudaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9385-4424
D Miklos RobkisDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5958-5478
Thomas ChristianDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA.
Adam B ConnDepartment of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
Gregor BlahaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
E James PeterssonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Ruben L GonzalezDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA. rlg2118@columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1344-5581
Ya-Ming HouDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA. ya-ming.hou@jefferson.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6546-2597
Thomas Jefferson University · USColumbia University · USUniversity of California, Riverside · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

tRNA in codon usageR35GM134931 · NIGMS · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI HOU, YA-MING · 2020 to 2025
$5.4M
TrmD-targeting actinobacterial natural products as next generation antibioticsR01AI164490 · NIAID · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI HOU, YA-MING, SHEN, BEN · 2021 to 2025
$4.2M
Discovery of Gram-negative permeable chemical probes for tRNA methylationR01AI139202 · NIAID · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI HOU, YA-MING · 2019 to 2022
$2.4M
The structural dynamics of ribosomal frameshifting and ribosome rescueR01GM137608 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI GONZALEZ, RUBEN L · 2020 to 2023
$1.6M
The structural dynamics of translation elongation and its regulationR01GM119386 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI GONZALEZ, RUBEN L · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139202NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI164490NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM119386NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM137608NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While genome recoding using quadruplet codons to incorporate non-proteinogenic amino acids is attractive for biotechnology and bioengineering purposes, the mechanism through which such codons are translated is poorly understood. Here we investigate translation of quadruplet codons by a +1-frameshifting tRNA, SufB2, that contains an extra nucleotide in its anticodon loop. Natural post-transcriptional modification of SufB2 in cells prevents it from frameshifting using a quadruplet-pairing mechanism such that it preferentially employs a triplet-slippage mechanism. We show that SufB2 uses triplet anticodon-codon pairing in the 0-frame to initially decode the quadruplet codon, but subsequently shifts to the +1-frame during tRNA-mRNA translocation. SufB2 frameshifting involves perturbation of an essential ribosome conformational change that facilitates tRNA-mRNA movements at a late stage of the translocation reaction. Our results provide a molecular mechanism for SufB2-induced +1 frameshifting and suggest that engineering of a specific ribosome conformational change can improve the efficiency of genome recoding.

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Genome, BacterialAmino AcidsAminoacylationAnticodonBacterial ProteinsBase SequenceCodonEscherichia coliFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferFrameshifting, RibosomalGuanosine TriphosphateHydrolysisMethylationModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationNucleotide MotifsAmino AcidsAnticodonBacterial ProteinsCodonGuanosine TriphosphateRNA, Transfer

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PMID33436566
PMCPMC7803779
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