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ArticleScience advances2023

Mapping the in vivo fitness landscape of a tethered ribosome.

Felix Radford, Jesse Rinehart, Farren J Isaacs

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Felix RadfordDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5771-3114
Jesse RinehartSystems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4839-4005
Farren J IsaacsDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8615-8236
Yale University · US

Funding

Predoc Training at the Interface Chemistry and BiologyT32GM067543 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CRAWFORD, JASON MICHAEL · 2003 to 2022
$7.4M
Engineering a recoded organism to discover PTM-mediated protein bindersR01GM140481 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Farren J. Isaacs · 2020 to 2026
$3.3M
Expanding the genetic code with phosphotyrosine and phosphothreonineR01GM125951 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ISAACS, FARREN J., RINEHART, JESSE · 2018 to 2021
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM125951NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140481NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM067543
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fitness landscapes are models of the sequence space of a genetic element that map how each sequence corresponds to its activity and can be used to guide laboratory evolution. The ribosome is a macromolecular machine that is essential for protein synthesis in all organisms. Because of the prevalence of dominant lethal mutations, a comprehensive fitness landscape of the ribosomal peptidyl transfer center (PTC) has not yet been attained. Here, we develop a method to functionally map an orthogonal tethered ribosome (oRiboT), which permits complete mutagenesis of nucleotides located in the PTC and the resulting epistatic interactions. We found that most nucleotides studied showed flexibility to mutation, and identified epistatic interactions between them, which compensate for deleterious mutations. This work provides a basis for a deeper understanding of ribosome function and malleability and could be used to inform design of engineered ribosomes with applications to synthesize next-generation biomaterials and therapeutics.

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Protein BiosynthesisRibosomesMutationNucleotidesNucleotides

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PMID37115918
PMCPMC10146877
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