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- Title
Functional Interactions of Ribosomal Intersubunit Bridges in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
- Authors
Tamm, Tiina; Kisly, Ivan; Remme, Jaanus
- Abstract
Ribosomes of Archaea and Eukarya share higher homology with each other than with bacterial ribosomes. For example, there is a set of 35 r-proteins that are specific only for archaeal and eukaryotic ribosomes. Three of these proteins--eL19, eL24, and eL41--participate in interactions between ribosomal subunits. The eukaryote-specific extensions of r-proteins eL19 and eL24 form two intersubunit bridges eB12 and eB13, which are present only in eukaryotic ribosomes. The third r-protein, eL41, forms bridge eB14. Notably, eL41 is found in all eukaryotes but only in some Archaea. It has been shown that bridges eB12 and eB13 are needed for efficient translation, while r-protein eL41 plays a minor role in ribosome function. Here, the functional interactions between intersubunit bridges were studied using budding yeast strains lacking different combinations of the abovementioned bridges/proteins. The growth phenotypes, levels of in vivo translation, ribosome-polysome profiles, and in vitro association of ribosomal subunits were analyzed. The results show a genetic interaction between r-protein eL41 and the eB12 bridge-forming region of eL19, and between r-proteins eL41 and eL24. It was possible to construct viable yeast strains with Archaea-like ribosomes lacking two or three eukaryote-specific bridges. These strains display slow growth and a poor translation phenotype. In addition, bridges eB12 and eB13 appear to cooperate during ribosome subunit association. These results indicate that nonessential structural elements of r-proteins become highly important in the context of disturbed subunit interactions. Therefore, eukaryote-specific bridges may contribute to the evolutionary success of eukaryotic translation machinery.
- Subjects
PROTEIN metabolism; BACTERIA; GENETICS; GENETIC mutation; PROTEINS; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES; YEAST; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
Genetics, 2019, Vol 213, Issue 4, p1329
- ISSN
0016-6731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1534/genetics.119.302777