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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wilson, Daniel N
• Schluenzen, Frank
• Harms, Joerg M
• Yoshida, Takuya
• Ohkubo, Tadayasu
• Albrecht, Renate
• Buerger, Joerg
• Kobayashi, Yuji
• Fucini, Paola

Titel

X-ray crystallography study on ribosome recycling: the mechanism of binding and action of RRF on the 50S ribosomal subunit

Ist Teil von

• The EMBO journal, 2005-01, Vol.24 (2), p.251-260

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study presents the crystal structure of domain I of the Escherichia coli ribosome recycling factor (RRF) bound to the Deinococcus radiodurans 50S subunit. The orientation of RRF is consistent with the position determined on a 70S‐RRF complex by cryoelectron microscopy (cryo‐EM). Alignment, however, requires a rotation of 7° and a shift of the cryo‐EM RRF by a complete turn of an α‐helix, redefining the contacts established with ribosomal components. At 3.3 Å resolution, RRF is seen to interact exclusively with ribosomal elements associated with tRNA binding and/or translocation. Furthermore, these results now provide a high‐resolution structural description of the conformational changes that were suspected to occur on the 70S‐RRF complex, which has implications for the synergistic action of RRF with elongation factor G (EF‐G). Specifically, the tip of the universal bridge element H69 is shifted by 20 Å toward h44 of the 30S subunit, suggesting that RRF primes the intersubunit bridge B2a for the action of EF‐G. Collectively, our data enable a model to be proposed for the dual action of EF‐G and RRF during ribosome recycling.