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SUBMITTER: McGinness KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC518778 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McGinness Kathleen E KE Sauer Robert T RT
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040831 37
Ribosomes stalled during protein synthesis can be rescued by tmRNA, which acts first as a tRNA and then as an mRNA to direct addition of a C-terminal degradation tag to the nascent polypeptide. Ribosomal protein S1 binds tmRNA, but its functional role in tmRNA-mediated tagging is uncertain. To probe interactions between S1 and tmRNA, truncated variants missing one or more of the six contiguous S1 domains were studied. The third S1 domain (R1) plays a critical role in binding tmRNA and mRNA but r ...[more]