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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

TRAMP assembly alters the conformation and RNA binding of Mtr4 and Trf4-Air2.

Joshua M Denson, Naifu Zhang, Darby Ball, Kayla Thompson, Sean J Johnson, Sheena D'Arcy

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. 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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  1. The regulation, function and disease relevance of cytoplasmic tRNAs.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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6 authors.

Joshua M DensonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322.ORCID 0000-0001-9616-6969
Naifu ZhangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080.
Darby BallDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080.ORCID 0000-0001-6379-6294
Kayla ThompsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322.
Sean J JohnsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322.ORCID 0000-0001-7992-2494
Sheena D'ArcyDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080.ORCID 0000-0001-5055-988X

Funding

The Role of Dynamics in Regulating Multi-Activity Protein Complexes and ChromatinR35GM133751 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI Sheena D'Arcy · 2019 to 2026
$2.9M
Structural and Functional Studies of Mtr4 and Mtr4-mediated ComplexesR01GM117311 · NIGMS · UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSON, SEAN J · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
Structural and Functional Studies of Mtr4 and the TRAMP RNA Surveillance ComplexR15GM148949 · NIGMS · UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSON, SEAN J · 2022 to 2023
$512k
HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R01GM117311HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R15GM148949HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM133751NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117311NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM148949NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133751
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The TRAMP complex contains two enzymatic activities essential for RNA processing upstream of the nuclear exosome. Within TRAMP, RNA is 3' polyadenylated by a subcomplex of Trf4/5 and Air1/2 and unwound 3' to 5' by Mtr4, a DExH helicase. The molecular mechanisms of TRAMP assembly and RNA shuffling between the two TRAMP catalytic sites are poorly understood. Here, we report solution hydrogen-deuterium exchange data with thermodynamic and functional assays to uncover these mechanisms for yeast TRAMP with Trf4 and Air2 homologs. We show that TRAMP assembly constrains RNA-recognition motifs that are peripheral to catalytic sites. These include the Mtr4 Arch and Air2 zinc knuckles 1, 2, and 3. While the Air2 Arch-interacting motif likely constrains the Mtr4 Arch via transient interactions, these do not fully account for the importance of the Mtr4 Arch in TRAMP assembly. We further show that tRNA binding by single active-site subunits, Mtr4 and Trf4-Air2, differs from the double active-site TRAMP. TRAMP has reduced tRNA binding on the Mtr4 Fist and RecA2 domains, offset by increased tRNA binding on Air2 zinc knuckles 2 and 3. Competition between these RNA-binding sites may drive tRNA transfer between TRAMP subunits. We identify dynamic changes upon TRAMP assembly and RNA-recognition motifs that transfer RNA between TRAMP catalytic sites.

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DEAD-box RNA HelicasesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseProtein BindingProtein ConformationRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, FungalAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAir2 protein, S cerevisiaeDEAD-box RNA HelicasesDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseMTR4 protein, S cerevisiaePAP2 protein, S cerevisiaeRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, FungalSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinshydrogen–deuterium exchangeRNA helicaseRNA polyadenylationRNA processingtRNA

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PMID39752526
PMCPMC11725892

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