UMMS Affiliation
RNA Therapeutics Institute; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Publication Date
2021-07-30
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Enzymes and Coenzymes | Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides
Abstract
Frameshifting of mRNA during translation provides a strategy to expand the coding repertoire of cells and viruses. How and where in the elongation cycle +1-frameshifting occurs remains poorly understood. We describe seven ~3.5-A-resolution cryo-EM structures of 70S ribosome complexes, allowing visualization of elongation and translocation by the GTPase elongation factor G (EF-G). Four structures with a + 1-frameshifting-prone mRNA reveal that frameshifting takes place during translocation of tRNA and mRNA. Prior to EF-G binding, the pre-translocation complex features an in-frame tRNA-mRNA pairing in the A site. In the partially translocated structure with EF-G*GDPCP, the tRNA shifts to the +1-frame near the P site, rendering the freed mRNA base to bulge between the P and E sites and to stack on the 16S rRNA nucleotide G926. The ribosome remains frameshifted in the nearly post-translocation state. Our findings demonstrate that the ribosome and EF-G cooperate to induce +1 frameshifting during tRNA-mRNA translocation.
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DOI of Published Version
10.1038/s41467-021-24911-1
Source
Demo G, Gamper HB, Loveland AB, Masuda I, Carbone CE, Svidritskiy E, Hou YM, Korostelev AA. Structural basis for +1 ribosomal frameshifting during EF-G-catalyzed translocation. Nat Commun. 2021 Jul 30;12(1):4644. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24911-1. PMID: 34330903; PMCID: PMC8324841. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Nature communications
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PubMed ID
34330903
Repository Citation
Demo G, Gamper HB, Loveland AB, Masuda I, Carbone CE, Svidritskiy E, Hou Y, Korostelev AA. (2021). Structural basis for +1 ribosomal frameshifting during EF-G-catalyzed translocation. Open Access Publications by UMass Chan Authors. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24911-1. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/4856
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