KACHALE, Ambar, Zuzana PAVLIKOVA, Anna NENAROKOVA, Adriana ROITHOVA, Ignacio M DURANTE, Petra MILETINOVA, Kristina ZAHONOVA, Serafim NENAROKOV, Jan VOTYPKA, Eva HORAKOVA, Robert L ROSS, Vyacheslav YURCHENKO, Petra BEZNOSKOVA, Zdenek PARIS, Leos Shivaya VALASEK and Julius LUKES. Short tRNA anticodon stem and mutant eRF1 allow stop codon reassignment. Nature. BERLIN: NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2023, vol. 613, No 7945, p. 751-773. ISSN 0028-0836. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05584-2.
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Original name Short tRNA anticodon stem and mutant eRF1 allow stop codon reassignment
Authors KACHALE, Ambar, Zuzana PAVLIKOVA, Anna NENAROKOVA, Adriana ROITHOVA, Ignacio M DURANTE, Petra MILETINOVA, Kristina ZAHONOVA, Serafim NENAROKOV, Jan VOTYPKA, Eva HORAKOVA, Robert L ROSS, Vyacheslav YURCHENKO, Petra BEZNOSKOVA, Zdenek PARIS, Leos Shivaya VALASEK and Julius LUKES (guarantor).
Edition Nature, BERLIN, NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2023, 0028-0836.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 64.800 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:90242/23:00133749
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05584-2
UT WoS 000913868600006
Keywords in English Cognate tRNAs; stop codons; Trypanosoma brucei; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Condylostoma magnum
Tags CF PROT, ne MU, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Cognate tRNAs deliver specific amino acids to translating ribosomes according to the standard genetic code, and three codons with no cognate tRNAs serve as stop codons. Some protists have reassigned all stop codons as sense codons, neglecting this fundamental principle(1-4). Here we analyse the in-frame stop codons in 7,259 predicted protein-coding genes of a previously undescribed trypanosomatid, Blastocrithidia nonstop. We reveal that in this species in-frame stop codons are underrepresented in genes expressed at high levels and that UAA serves as the only termination codon. Whereas new tRNAs(Glu) fully cognate to UAG and UAA evolved to reassign these stop codons, the UGA reassignment followed a different path through shortening the anticodon stem of tRNA(CCA)(Trp) from five to four base pairs (bp). The canonical 5-bp tRNA(Trp) recognizes UGG as dictated by the genetic code, whereas its shortened 4-bp variant incorporates tryptophan also into in-frame UGA. Mimicking this evolutionary twist by engineering both variants from B. nonstop, Trypanosoma brucei and Saccharomyces cerevisiae and expressing them in the last two species, we recorded a significantly higher readthrough for all 4-bp variants. Furthermore, a gene encoding B. nonstop release factor 1 acquired a mutation that specifically restricts UGA recognition, robustly potentiating the UGA reassignment. Virtually the same strategy has been adopted by the ciliate Condylostoma magnum. Hence, we describe a previously unknown, universal mechanism that has been exploited in unrelated eukaryotes with reassigned stop codons.
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