Disruption of evolutionarily correlated tRNA elements impairs accurate decoding.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial transfer RNAs (tRNAs) contain evolutionarily conserved sequences and modifications that ensure uniform binding to the ribosome and optimal translational accuracy despite differences in their aminoacyl attachments and anticodon nucleotide sequences. In the tRNA anticodon stem-loop, the anticodon sequence is correlated with a base pair in the anticodon loop (nucleotides 32 and 38) to tune the binding of each tRNA to the decoding center in the ribosome. Disruption of this correlation renders the ribosome unable to distinguish correct from incorrect tRNAs. The molecular basis for how these two tRNA features combine to ensure accurate decoding is unclear. Here, we solved structures of the bacterial ribosome containing either wild-type [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] contain

SUBMITTER: Nguyen HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368331 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature