动态路径的-1 转换框架移动
Jin Chen1, Alexey Petrov2, Magnus Johansson2
11] Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4090, USA [2] Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5126, USA.
Nature
|June 12, 2014
概括
编程-1核糖体框架转移发生在核糖体暂停并在特定的mRNA序列上发生构造变化时,使新的氨基酸序列的翻译成为可能.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 遗传学 遗传学 是一个
- 生物化学 生物化学
背景情况:
- 核糖体框架转移是一种罕见但编程的翻译事件,受mRNA结构的影响,如滑动序列.
- 尽管进行了广泛的研究,编程-1移的机制仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为了阐明 - 1 框架转移期间的核糖体的机械和结构动力学.
- 在引发移的mRNA翻译过程中研究单个子的核糖体行为.
主要方法:
- 用单分子光显微镜来追踪核糖体动态.
- 在埃舍里希亚大肠杆菌dnaXmRNA的翻译过程中对核糖体暂停,子单元旋转和tRNA相互作用的分析.
主要成果:
- 与非框架转移的核糖体相比,框架转移的核糖体表现出长达10倍的暂停时间.
- 在休息期间的核糖体-mRNA相互作用脱转位和子单元旋转,创建一个非正规状态.
- 在A位点的tRNA采样和EF-G作用确定了转移到-1或继续在0.
结论:
- 建立了 -1 核糖体框架转移的机制和构造框架.
- 在延长过程中多个动力分支点被确定为框架转移的关键.
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