Rapid Peptide Bond Formation on Isolated 50S Ribosomal Subunits

Overview

Journal EMBO Rep

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2006 Jun 27

PMID 16799464

Citations 18

Authors

Ingo Wohlgemuth

Malte Beringer

Marina V Rodnina

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Abstract

The catalytic site of the ribosome, the peptidyl transferase centre, is located on the large (50S in bacteria) ribosomal subunit. On the basis of results obtained with small substrate analogues, isolated 50S subunits seem to be less active in peptide bond formation than 70S ribosomes by several orders of magnitude, suggesting that the reaction mechanisms on 50S subunits and 70S ribosomes may be different. Here we show that with full-size fMet-tRNA(fMet) and puromycin or C-puromycin as peptide donor and acceptor substrates, respectively, the reaction proceeds as rapidly on 50S subunits as on 70S ribosomes, indicating that the intrinsic activity of 50S subunits is not different from that of 70S ribosomes. The faster reaction on 50S subunits with fMet-tRNA(fMet), compared with oligonucleotide substrate analogues, suggests that full-size transfer RNA in the P site is important for maintaining the active conformation of the peptidyl transferase centre.

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