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Article Dans Une Revue Biochimie Année : 2008

Arrangement of 3'-terminus of tRNA on the human ribosome as revealed from cross-linking data.

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This study is directed towards an important problem concerning the organization of the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) on the mammalian ribosome that cannot be studied by X-ray analysis since crystals of 80S ribosomes are still unavailable. Here, we investigated the arrangement of the 3'-end of tRNA in the 80S ribosomal A and P sites using a tRNA(Asp) analogue that bears a 4-thiouridine (s(4)U) attached to the 3'-terminal adenosine. It was shown that an additional nucleotide s(4)U77 on the 3'-end does not impede codon-dependent binding of the tRNA to the A and P sites of 80S ribosome. Mild UV-irradiation of the ribosomal complexes containing a short appropriately designed mRNA and the tRNA analogue resulted in cross-linking of the analogue exclusively to 28S rRNA. The cross-linking site was detected in the 4302-4540 fragment of the 28S rRNA which belongs to the highly conserved domain V that in prokaryotic ribosomes is involved in the formation of the PTC. Nucleotides cross-linked to the tRNA analogue were determined by means of reverse transcription. A comparison of the results obtained with a dynamic model of mutual arrangement of s(4)U77 of the A site tRNA and nucleotides of 23S rRNA built on the basis of an atomic model for the prokaryotic PTC led to the conclusion that environments of the tRNA 3'-terminus in prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes share a significant extent of similarity, although pronounced differences are also detectable.

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hal-00302246 , version 1 (21-07-2008)

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Konstantin Bulygin, Alain Favre, Soria Baouz-Drahy, Codjo Hountondji, Yury Vorobjev, et al.. Arrangement of 3'-terminus of tRNA on the human ribosome as revealed from cross-linking data.. Biochimie, 2008, epub ahead of print. ⟨10.1016/j.biochi.2008.06.002⟩. ⟨hal-00302246⟩
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