Title
Real-time assembly landscape of bacterial 30S translation initiation complex
Date Issued
01 June 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Abstract
Initiation factors guide the ribosome in the selection of mRNA and translational reading frame. We determined the kinetically favored assembly pathway of the 30S preinitiation complex (30S PIC), an early intermediate in 30S initiation complex formation in Escherichia coli. IF3 and IF2 are the first factors to arrive, forming an unstable 30S-IF2-IF3 complex. Subsequently, IF1 joins and locks the factors in a kinetically stable 30S PIC to which fMet-tRNA fMet is recruited. Binding of mRNA is independent of initiation factors and can take place at any time during 30S PIC assembly, depending on the cellular concentration of the mRNA and the structural determinants at the ribosome-binding site. The kinetic analysis shows both specific and cumulative effects of initiation factors as well as kinetic checkpoints of mRNA selection at the entry into translation. © 2012 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
Start page
609
End page
615
Volume
19
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología celular, Microbiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84861859514
PubMed ID
Source
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
ISSN of the container
15459985
Sponsor(s)
We thank W. Wintermeyer for critically reading and shortening the manuscript, C. Kothe for doing some stopped-flow experiments and O. Geintzer, S. Kappler, C. Kothe and T. Wiles for expert technical assistance. We also thank the participants of the methods course on transient kinetics of the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics and Molecular Biosciences for doing some stopped-flow experiments. This work was supported by grants of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (M.V.R.) and Italian Ministero dell′Instruzione, dell′Universitá e della Ricerca (C.O.G.).
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