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- Title
Differential Contribution of Protein Factors and 70S Ribosome to Elongation.
- Authors
Paleskava, Alena; Maksimova, Elena M.; Vinogradova, Daria S.; Kasatsky, Pavel S.; Kirillov, Stanislav V.; Konevega, Andrey L.
- Abstract
The growth of the polypeptide chain occurs due to the fast and coordinated work of the ribosome and protein elongation factors, EF-Tu and EF-G. However, the exact contribution of each of these components in the overall balance of translation kinetics remains not fully understood. We created an in vitro translation system Escherichia coli replacing either elongation factor with heterologous thermophilic protein from Thermus thermophilus. The rates of the A-site binding and decoding reactions decreased an order of magnitude in the presence of thermophilic EF-Tu, indicating that the kinetics of aminoacyl-tRNA delivery depends on the properties of the elongation factor. On the contrary, thermophilic EF-G demonstrated the same translocation kinetics as a mesophilic protein. Effects of translocation inhibitors (spectinomycin, hygromycin B, viomycin and streptomycin) were also similar for both proteins. Thus, the process of translocation largely relies on the interaction of tRNAs and the ribosome and can be efficiently catalysed by thermophilic EF-G even at suboptimal temperatures.
- Subjects
ELONGATION factors (Biochemistry); THERMUS thermophilus; TRANSFER RNA; RIBOSOMES; PROTEINS; AMINOACYL-tRNA
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 17, p9614
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms22179614