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SUBMITTER: Gamper HB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4445466 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gamper Howard B HB Masuda Isao I Frenkel-Morgenstern Milana M Hou Ya-Ming YM
Nature communications 20150526
Maintaining the translational reading frame poses difficulty for the ribosome. Slippery mRNA sequences such as CC[C/U]-[C/U], read by isoacceptors of tRNA(Pro), are highly prone to +1 frameshift (+1FS) errors. Here we show that +1FS errors occur by two mechanisms, a slow mechanism when tRNA(Pro) is stalled in the P-site next to an empty A-site and a fast mechanism during translocation of tRNA(Pro) into the P-site. Suppression of +1FS errors requires the m(1)G37 methylation of tRNA(Pro) on the 3' ...[more]