Funding Organization(s): National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Primary Citation of Related Structures: 9MOR, 9MQ4
PubMed Abstract:
In bacteria, spontaneous mRNAs degradation and ribotoxin-induced RNA damage are two main biological events that lead to the stall of protein translation. The ubiquitous trans-translation system as well as several alternative rescue factors (Arfs) are responsible for rescuing the stalled ribosomes caused by truncated mRNAs that lack the stop codons. To date, protein release factor homolog (PrfH) is the only factor known to rescue the stalled ribosome damaged by ribotoxins. Here we show that a subfamily of PrfH, exemplified by PrfH from Capnocytophaga gingivalis ( Cg PrfH), rescues both types of stalled ribosomes described above. Our in vitro biochemical assays demonstrate that Cg PrfH hydrolyzes the peptides attached to P-site tRNAs when in complex with both the damaged and intact ribosomes. Two cryo-EM structures of Cg PrfH in complex with the damaged and intact 70S ribosomes revealed that Cg PrfH employs two different regions of the protein to recognize two different stalled ribosomes to orient the GGQ motif for peptide hydrolysis. Thus, using a combination of bioinformatic, biochemical, and structural characterization described here, we have uncovered a family of ribosome rescue factors that possesses dual activities to resolve two distinct stalled protein translation in bacteria.
Organizational Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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