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- Title
One SmpB molecule accompanies tmRNA during its passage through the ribosomes
- Authors
Bugaeva, Elizaveta Y.; Shpanchenko, Olga V.; Felden, Brice; Isaksson, Leif A.; Dontsova, Olga A.
- Abstract
Abstract: tmRNA and SmpB are the main participants of trans-translation, a process which rescues the ribosome blocked during translation of non-stop mRNA. While a one-to-one stoichiometry of tmRNA to the ribosome is generally accepted, the number of SmpB molecules in the complex is still under question. We have isolated tmRNA–ribosome complexes blocked at different steps of the tmRNA path through the ribosome and analyzed the stoichiometry of the complexes. Ribosome, tmRNA and SmpB were found in equimolar amount in the tmRNA–ribosome complexes stopped at the position of the 2nd, 4th, 5th or the 11th codons of the coding part of the tmRNA.
- Subjects
MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOMES; ORGANELLES; STOICHIOMETRY
- Publication
FEBS Letters, 2008, Vol 582, Issue 10, p1532
- ISSN
0014-5793
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.febslet.2008.03.049