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Ribosome Structure Reveals Preservation of Active Sites in the Presence of a P-Site Wobble Mismatch.


ABSTRACT: Translation initiation in the P site occasionally occurs at atypical (non-AUG) start codons, including those forming a mismatch in the third (wobble) position. During elongation, however, a pyrimidine-pyrimidine wobble mismatch may trigger a translation quality-control mechanism, whereby the P-site mismatch is thought to perturb the downstream A-site codon or the decoding center, thereby reducing translation fidelity and inducing termination of aberrant translation. We report a crystal structure of the 70S initiation complex containing an AUC codon in the ribosomal P site. Remarkably, the ribosome stabilizes the mismatched codon-anticodon helix, arranging a normally disruptive cytosine-cytosine pair into a Watson-Crick-like conformation. Translation-competent conformations of the tRNA, mRNA, and decoding center suggest that a P-site wobble-position mismatch in the 70S initiation complex does not pre-arrange the mRNA or decoding center to favor subsequent miscoding events.

SUBMITTER: Svidritskiy E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4635039 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ribosome Structure Reveals Preservation of Active Sites in the Presence of a P-Site Wobble Mismatch.

Svidritskiy Egor E   Korostelev Andrei A AA  

Structure (London, England : 1993) 20150924 11


Translation initiation in the P site occasionally occurs at atypical (non-AUG) start codons, including those forming a mismatch in the third (wobble) position. During elongation, however, a pyrimidine-pyrimidine wobble mismatch may trigger a translation quality-control mechanism, whereby the P-site mismatch is thought to perturb the downstream A-site codon or the decoding center, thereby reducing translation fidelity and inducing termination of aberrant translation. We report a crystal structure  ...[more]

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