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The β-hairpin of 40S exit channel protein Rps5/uS7 promotes efficient and accurate translation initiation in vivo

  1. Alan G Hinnebusch  Is a corresponding author
  2. Jyothsna Visweswaraiah
  3. Yvette Pittman
  4. Thomas E Dever
  1. National Institutes of Health, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07939
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  1. Alan G Hinnebusch
  2. Jyothsna Visweswaraiah
  3. Yvette Pittman
  4. Thomas E Dever
(2015)
The β-hairpin of 40S exit channel protein Rps5/uS7 promotes efficient and accurate translation initiation in vivo
eLife 4:e07939.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07939
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Abstract

The eukaryotic 43S pre-initiation complex bearing tRNAiMet scans the mRNA leader for an AUG start codon in favorable context. Structural analyses revealed that the β-hairpin of 40S protein Rps5/uS7 protrudes into the 40S mRNA exit-channel, contacting the eIF2∙GTP∙Met-tRNAi ternary complex (TC) and mRNA context nucleotides; but its importance in AUG selection was unknown. We identified substitutions in β-strand-1 and C-terminal residues of yeast Rps5 that reduced bulk initiation, conferred 'leaky-scanning' of AUGs; and lowered initiation fidelity by exacerbating the effect of poor context of the eIF1 AUG codon to reduce eIF1 abundance. Consistently, the β-strand-1 substitution greatly destabilized the 'PIN' conformation of TC binding to reconstituted 43S·mRNA complexes in vitro. Other substitutions in β-hairpin loop residues increased initiation fidelity and destabilized PIN at UUG, but not AUG start codons. We conclude that the Rps5 β-hairpin is as crucial as soluble initiation factors for efficient and accurate start codon recognition.

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  1. Alan G Hinnebusch

    Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  2. Jyothsna Visweswaraiah

    Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  3. Yvette Pittman

    Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  4. Thomas E Dever

    Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
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  1. Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada

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  1. Received: April 5, 2015
  2. Accepted: July 1, 2015
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: July 2, 2015 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: July 24, 2015 (version 2)

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  1. Alan G Hinnebusch
  2. Jyothsna Visweswaraiah
  3. Yvette Pittman
  4. Thomas E Dever
(2015)
The β-hairpin of 40S exit channel protein Rps5/uS7 promotes efficient and accurate translation initiation in vivo
eLife 4:e07939.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07939

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