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SUBMITTER: James NR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5351859 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
James Nathan R NR Brown Alan A Gordiyenko Yuliya Y Ramakrishnan V V
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20161201 6318
Ribosomes stall when they encounter the end of messenger RNA (mRNA) without an in-frame stop codon. In bacteria, these "nonstop" complexes can be rescued by alternative ribosome-rescue factor A (ArfA). We used electron cryomicroscopy to determine structures of ArfA bound to the ribosome with 3'-truncated mRNA, at resolutions ranging from 3.0 to 3.4 angstroms. ArfA binds within the ribosomal mRNA channel and substitutes for the absent stop codon in the A site by specifically recruiting release fa ...[more]