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SUBMITTER: Jin H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889298 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100426 19
We report the crystal structure of release factor 2 bound to ribosome with an aminoacyl tRNA substrate analog at the ribosomal P site, at 3.1 A resolution. The structure shows that upon stop-codon recognition, the universally conserved GGQ motif packs tightly into the peptidyl transferase center. Nucleotide A2602 of 23S rRNA, implicated in peptide release, packs with the GGQ motif in release factor 2. The ribose of A76 of the peptidyl-tRNA adopts the C2'-endo conformation, and the 2' hydroxyl of ...[more]