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Mechanism of ribosome shutdown by RsfS in Staphylococcus aureus revealed by integrative structural biology approach.

ABSTRACT: For the sake of energy preservation, bacteria, upon transition to stationary phase, tone down their protein synthesis. This process is favored by the reversible binding of small stress-induced proteins to the ribosome to prevent unnecessary translation. One example is the conserved bacterial ribosome silencing factor (RsfS) that binds to uL14 protein onto the large ribosomal subunit and prevents its association with the small subunit. Here we describe the binding mode of Staphylococcus aureus RsfS to the large ribosomal subunit and present a 3.2?Å resolution cryo-EM reconstruction of the 50S-RsfS complex together with the crystal structure of uL14-RsfS complex solved at 2.3?Å resolution. The understanding of the detailed landscape of RsfS-uL14 interactions within the ribosome shed light on the mechanism of ribosome shutdown in the human pathogen S. aureus and might deliver a novel target for pharmacological drug development and treatment of bacterial infections.

SUBMITTER: Khusainov I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7125091 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mechanism of ribosome shutdown by RsfS in Staphylococcus aureus revealed by integrative structural biology approach.

Khusainov Iskander I Fatkhullin Bulat B Pellegrino Simone S Bikmullin Aydar A Liu Wen-Ti WT Gabdulkhakov Azat A Shebel Amr Al AA Golubev Alexander A Zeyer Denis D Trachtmann Natalie N Sprenger Georg A GA Validov Shamil S Usachev Konstantin K Yusupova Gulnara G Yusupov Marat M

Nature communications 20200403 1

For the sake of energy preservation, bacteria, upon transition to stationary phase, tone down their protein synthesis. This process is favored by the reversible binding of small stress-induced proteins to the ribosome to prevent unnecessary translation. One example is the conserved bacterial ribosome silencing factor (RsfS) that binds to uL14 protein onto the large ribosomal subunit and prevents its association with the small subunit. Here we describe the binding mode of Staphylococcus aureus Rs ...[more]

PMID: 32245971

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Mechanism of ribosome shutdown by RsfS in Staphylococcus aureus revealed by integrative structural biology approach.

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Mechanism of ribosome shutdown by RsfS in Staphylococcus aureus revealed by integrative structural biology approach.

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