Crystal structure of an extended tRNA anticodon stem loop in complex with its cognate mRNA UCGU in the context of the Thermus thermophilus 30S subunit.
2uxc is a 23 chain structure with sequence from Thermus thermophilus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
[RS16_THET8] Binds to the lower part of the body of the 30S subunit, where it stabilizes two of its domains.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_00385] [RS6_THET8] Located on the outer edge of the platform on the body of the 30S subunit.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_00360] [RS9_THET8] Part of the top of the head of the 30S subunit. The C-terminal region penetrates the head emerging in the P-site where it contacts tRNA.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_00532_B] [RS8_THET8] One of the primary rRNA binding proteins, it binds directly to 16S rRNA where it helps nucleate assembly of the platform of the 30S subunit central domain. The combined cluster of proteins S8, S12 and S17 appears to hold together the shoulder and platform of the 30S subunit.[HAMAP-Rule:MF_01302_B]
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
During translation, some +1 frameshift mRNA sites are decoded by frameshift suppressor tRNAs that contain an extra base in their anticodon loops. Similarly engineered tRNAs have been used to insert nonnatural amino acids into proteins. Here, we report crystal structures of two anticodon stem-loops (ASLs) from tRNAs known to facilitate +1 frameshifting bound to the 30S ribosomal subunit with their cognate mRNAs. ASL(CCCG) and ASL(ACCC) (5'-3' nomenclature) form unpredicted anticodon-codon interactions where the anticodon base 34 at the wobble position contacts either the fourth codon base or the third and fourth codon bases. In addition, we report the structure of ASL(ACGA) bound to the 30S ribosomal subunit with its cognate mRNA. The tRNA containing this ASL was previously shown to be unable to facilitate +1 frameshifting in competition with normal tRNAs (Hohsaka et al. 2001), and interestingly, it displays a normal anticodon-codon interaction. These structures show that the expanded anticodon loop of +1 frameshift promoting tRNAs are flexible enough to adopt conformations that allow three bases of the anticodon to span four bases of the mRNA. Therefore it appears that normal triplet pairing is not an absolute constraint of the decoding center.
Structures of tRNAs with an expanded anticodon loop in the decoding center of the 30S ribosomal subunit.,Dunham CM, Selmer M, Phelps SS, Kelley AC, Suzuki T, Joseph S, Ramakrishnan V RNA. 2007 Jun;13(6):817-23. Epub 2007 Apr 6. PMID:17416634[1]
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↑Dunham CM, Selmer M, Phelps SS, Kelley AC, Suzuki T, Joseph S, Ramakrishnan V. Structures of tRNAs with an expanded anticodon loop in the decoding center of the 30S ribosomal subunit. RNA. 2007 Jun;13(6):817-23. Epub 2007 Apr 6. PMID:17416634 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1261/rna.367307
