Life Without TRNAIle-lysidine Synthetase: Translation of the Isoleucine Codon AUA in Bacillus Subtilis Lacking the Canonical TRNA2Ile

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2013 Nov 7

PMID 24194599

Citations 17

Authors

Caroline Kohrer

Debabrata Mandal

Kirk W Gaston

Henri Grosjean

Patrick A Limbach

Uttam L RajBhandary

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Abstract

Translation of the isoleucine codon AUA in most prokaryotes requires a modified C (lysidine or agmatidine) at the wobble position of tRNA2(Ile) to base pair specifically with the A of the AUA codon but not with the G of AUG. Recently, a Bacillus subtilis strain was isolated in which the essential gene encoding tRNA(Ile)-lysidine synthetase was deleted for the first time. In such a strain, C34 at the wobble position of tRNA2(Ile) is expected to remain unmodified and cells depend on a mutant suppressor tRNA derived from tRNA1(Ile), in which G34 has been changed to U34. An important question, therefore, is how U34 base pairs with A without also base pairing with G. Here, we show (i) that unlike U34 at the wobble position of all B. subtilis tRNAs of known sequence, U34 in the mutant tRNA is not modified, and (ii) that the mutant tRNA binds strongly to the AUA codon on B. subtilis ribosomes but only weakly to AUG. These in vitro data explain why the suppressor strain displays only a low level of misreading AUG codons in vivo and, as shown here, grows at a rate comparable to that of the wild-type strain.

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