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ArticleNucleic acids research2023

Near-physiological in vitro assembly of 50S ribosomes involves parallel pathways.

Xiyu Dong, Lili K Doerfel, Kai Sheng, Jessica N Rabuck-Gibbons, Anna M Popova, Dmitry Lyumkis, James R Williamson

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Xiyu DongDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Lili K DoerfelDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1704-833X
Kai ShengDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Jessica N Rabuck-GibbonsDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Anna M PopovaDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Dmitry LyumkisDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8124-7472
James R WilliamsonDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8772-468X

Funding

Structural Biology CoreU54AI170855 · NIAID · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Alan N. Engelman · 2022 to 2026
$36.7M
Assembly of E. coli ribosomes in vitro and in cellsR37GM053757 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WILLIAMSON, JAMES R · 2008 to 2017
$5.1M
STRUCTURE AND ASSEMBLY OF 30 S CENTRAL DOMAIN RNPSR01GM053757 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WILLIAMSON, JAMES R · 1996 to 2020
$5.0M
Dynamics of the Bacterial Ribosome and Proteome (Equipment Supplement)R35GM136412 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI James R Williamson · 2020 to 2026
$4.9M
High-speed direct detector for cryo electron microscopyS10OD032467 · OD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI LANDER, GABRIEL C · 2022 to 2022
$600k
COMPUTING AND DATA STORAGE CLUSTER FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPYS10OD021634 · OD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI LANDER, GABRIEL C · 2016 to 2016
$531k
NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI170855NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM053757NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136412NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM053757NIH HHS S10 OD021634NIH HHS S10 OD032467
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the assembly principles of biological macromolecular complexes remains a significant challenge, due to the complexity of the systems and the difficulties in developing experimental approaches. As a ribonucleoprotein complex, the ribosome serves as a model system for the profiling of macromolecular complex assembly. In this work, we report an ensemble of large ribosomal subunit intermediate structures that accumulate during synthesis in a near-physiological and co-transcriptional in vitro reconstitution system. Thirteen pre-50S intermediate maps covering the entire assembly process were resolved using cryo-EM single-particle analysis and heterogeneous subclassification. Segmentation of the set of density maps reveals that the 50S ribosome intermediates assemble based on fourteen cooperative assembly blocks, including the smallest assembly core reported to date, which is composed of a 600-nucleotide-long folded rRNA and three ribosomal proteins. The cooperative blocks assemble onto the assembly core following defined dependencies, revealing the parallel pathways at both early and late assembly stages of the 50S subunit.

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RibosomesRNA, RibosomalRibosomal ProteinsRibosome Subunits, LargeRibosomal ProteinsRNA, Ribosomal

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PMID36864669
PMCPMC10085682

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