Structures of translationally inactive mammalian ribosomes
- Harvard Medical School, United States
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Abstract
The cellular levels and activities of ribosomes directly regulate gene expression during numerous physiological processes. The mechanisms that globally repress translation are incompletely understood. Here, we use electron cryomicroscopy to analyze inactive ribosomes isolated from mammalian reticulocytes, the penultimate stage of red blood cell differentiation. We identify two types of ribosomes that are translationally repressed by protein interactions. The first comprises ribosomes sequestered with elongation factor 2 (eEF2) by SERPINE mRNA binding protein 1 (SERBP1) occupying the ribosomal mRNA entrance channel. The second type are translationally repressed by a novel ribosome-binding protein, interferon-related developmental regulator 2 (IFRD2), which spans the P and E sites and inserts a C-terminal helix into the mRNA exit channel to preclude translation. IFRD2 binds ribosomes with a tRNA occupying a noncanonical binding site, the 'Z site', on the ribosome. These structures provide functional insights into how ribosomal interactions may suppress translation to regulate gene expression.
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Harvard Medical School (N/A)
- Alan Brown
- Matthew R Baird
- Matthew CJ Yip
- Sichen Shao
International Retinal Research Foundation (N/A)
- Alan Brown
E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind (N/A)
- Alan Brown
Charles H. Hood Foundation (N/A)
- Sichen Shao
Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation (N/A)
- Sichen Shao
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2018, Brown et al.
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Structures of translationally inactive mammalian ribosomes
eLife 7:e40486.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40486
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