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ArticleCell reports2021

Conserved heterodimeric GTPase Rbg1/Tma46 promotes efficient translation in eukaryotic cells.

Fuxing Zeng, Xin Li, Melissa Pires-Alves, Xin Chen, Christopher W Hawk, Hong Jin

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Article in Cell reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fuxing ZengDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, No. 1088 Xueyuan Blvd., Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China.
Xin LiDepartment of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, No. 1088 Xueyuan Blvd., Shenzhen 518055, People's Republic of China.
Melissa Pires-AlvesDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Xin ChenCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Christopher W HawkDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Hong JinDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, 1206 West Gregory Drive, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: hjin@illinois.edu.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USSouthern University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

Mechanisms of Translational Activation by Decapping ActivatorsR01GM120552 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI JIN, HONG · 2016 to 2020
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120552
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conserved developmentally regulated guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-binding proteins (Drgs) and their binding partner Drg family regulatory proteins (Dfrps) are important for embryonic development, cellular growth control, differentiation, and proliferation. Here, we report that the yeast Drg1/Dfrp1 ortholog Rbg1/Tma46 facilitates translational initiation, elongation, and termination by suppressing prolonged ribosome pausing. Consistent with the genome-wide observations, deletion of Rbg1 exacerbates the growth defect resulting from translation stalling, and Rbg1 stabilizes mRNAs against no-go decay. Furthermore, we provide a cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of the 80S ribosome bound with Rbg1/Tma46 that reveals the molecular interactions responsible for Rbg1/Tma46 function. The Rbg1 subunit binds to the GTPase association center of the ribosome and the A-tRNA, and the N-terminal zinc finger domain of the Tma46 subunit binds to the 40S, establishing an interaction critical for the ribosomal association. Our results answer the fundamental question of how a paused ribosome resumes translation and show that Drg1/Dfrp1 play a critical role in ensuring orderly translation.

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Protein BiosynthesisRNA StabilityCarrier ProteinsRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsCarrier ProteinsRbg1 protein, S cerevisiaeRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinsdevelopmentally-regulated GTP-binding proteinsDfrpDrgDrg-family regulatory proteinsprotein homeostasisribosomeribosome stallingtranslation

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PMID34706231
PMCPMC9287898
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