The Ribosome-bound Initiation Factor 2 Recruits Initiator TRNA to the 30S Initiation Complex

Overview

Journal EMBO Rep

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2010 Mar 13

PMID 20224578

Citations 56

Authors

Pohl Milon

Marcello Carotti

Andrey L Konevega

Wolfgang Wintermeyer

Marina V Rodnina

Claudio O Gualerzi

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Abstract

Bacterial translation initiation factor 2 (IF2) is a GTPase that promotes the binding of the initiator fMet-tRNA(fMet) to the 30S ribosomal subunit. It is often assumed that IF2 delivers fMet-tRNA(fMet) to the ribosome in a ternary complex, IF2.GTP.fMet-tRNA(fMet). By using rapid kinetic techniques, we show here that binding of IF2.GTP to the 30S ribosomal subunit precedes and is independent of fMet-tRNA(fMet) binding. The ternary complex formed in solution by IF2.GTP and fMet-tRNA is unstable and dissociates before IF2.GTP and, subsequently, fMet-tRNA(fMet) bind to the 30S subunit. Ribosome-bound IF2 might accelerate the recruitment of fMet-tRNA(fMet) to the 30S initiation complex by providing anchoring interactions or inducing a favourable ribosome conformation. The mechanism of action of IF2 seems to be different from that of tRNA carriers such as EF-Tu, SelB and eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2), instead resembling that of eIF5B, the eukaryotic subunit association factor.

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