Role of the 1-72 Base Pair in TRNAs for the Activity of Escherichia Coli Peptidyl-tRNA Hydrolase

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1993 Aug 25

PMID 7690473

Citations 21

Authors

S DUTKA

T Meinnel

C Lazennec

Y Mechulam

S Blanquet

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Abstract

Previous work by Schulman and Pelka (1975) J. Biol. Chem. 250, 542-547, indicated that the absence of a pairing between the bases 1 and 72 in initiator tRNA(fMet) explained the relatively small activity of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase towards N-acetyl-methionyl-tRNA(fMet). In the present study, the structural requirements for the sensitivity of an N-acetyl-aminoacyl-tRNA to Escherichia coli peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase activity have been further investigated. Ten derivatives of tRNA(fMet) with various combinations of bases at positions 1 and 72 in the acceptor stem have been produced, aminoacylated and chemically acetylated. The release of the aminoacyl moiety from these tRNA derivatives was assayed in the presence of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase purified from an overproducing strain. tRNA(fMet) derivatives with either C1A72, C1C72, U1G72, U1C72 or A1C72 behaved as poor substrates of the enzyme, as compared to those with C1G72, U1A72, G1C72, A1U72 or G1U72. With the exception of U1G72, it could be therefore concluded that the relative resistance of tRNA(fMet) to peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase did not depend on a particular combination of nucleotides at positions 1 and 72, but rather reflected the absence of a base pairing at these positions. In a second series of experiments, the unpairing of the 1 and 72 bases, created with C-A or A-C bases, instead of G-C in methionyl-tRNA(mMet) or in valyl-tRNA(Val1), was shown to markedly decrease the rate of hydrolysis catalysed by peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase. Altogether, the data indicate that the stability of the 1-72 pair governs the degree of sensitivity of a peptidyl-tRNA to peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase.

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