在翻译过程中信号识别粒子的时间调节
Ruilin Qian1, Radoslaw J Gora1, Sowmya Chandrasekar1
1Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Journal of molecular biology
|October 11, 2025
概括
信号识别粒子 (SRP) 随着新生链条的延长而失去将蛋白质向ER的能力. 新生的聚相关复合体 (NAC) 进一步阻碍了SRP功能,限制了共翻译向.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 生物化学 生化学
背景情况:
- 信号识别粒子 (SRP) 对于将蛋白质导向到内质网膜 (ER) 至关重要.
- SRP将信号序列绑定到从核糖体中出现的新生蛋白质上.
- 随着新生链条长度的增加,SRP准能力丧失的机制尚未完全理解.
研究的目的:
- 调查SRP准能力丧失的分子机制,因为新生的多链变长.
- 阐明新生聚相关复合体 (NAC) 在蛋白质合成过程中调节SRP功能的作用.
主要方法:
- 使用了稳态和单分子光谱学.
- 采用福斯特共振能量转移 (FRET) 试验来监测信号序列动态.
- 研究了SRP与携带不同长度新生链的核糖体的相互作用.
主要成果:
- 较长的新生链增加了来自SRP的信号序列的动态外出,导致了低于最佳的SRP构造.
- 在较长的新生链中观察到SRP和SRP受体 (SR) 之间的相互作用动力学受损.
- NAC放大了较长的新生链对SRP的抑制作用,进一步将其排除在ER向之外.
结论:
- 新生聚的延长显著影响SRP的形状和活性.
- 在SRP功能的时间调节中,NAC起着至关重要的作用.
- 这些因素共同创造了一个有限的窗口,用于共同翻译的ER蛋白向.
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