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Characterization of the Cys-tRNA
Pro
Editing Mechanism and Functional Interactions of Bacterial YbaK Protein
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So, Byung Ran
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268257970
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2010, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Chemistry.
Abstract
Fidelity of translation is critical for viable cellular functions. Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) catalyze the formation of aminoacyl-tRNAs (aa-tRNAs), which are essential components for protein synthesis on the ribosome. To achieve high accuracy in aminoacylation, some synthetases have evolved proofreading functions, and in a few cases, these functions are carried out by freestanding proteins. Defects in the editing ability of aaRSs can cause mis-acylation of tRNAs, resulting in growth defects in
Escherichia coli
(E. coli), an apoptotic response, or neurodegeneration in mammalian cells. We are interested in the role of the editing domain of prolyl-tRNA synthetase and the YbaK protein in aa-tRNA channeling and quality control in translation. E. coli ProRS misactivates alanine and hydrolyzes mischarged Ala-tRNA
Pro
using an editing active site (INS) that is distinct from the amino acid activation site. The enzyme is also unable to discriminate cysteine, which has a molecular volume similar to that of cognate proline, and efficiently synthesizes misacylated Cys-tRNA
Pro
. Interestingly, while the ProRS editing domain does not clear this mischarged product, the small freestanding YbaK protein, which is a homolog of the INS domain, deacylates Cys-tRNA
Pro
. In this work, we investigated the mechanism of deacylation and substrate specificity of YbaK at the molecular level, and the functional interactions of a ProRS·YbaK complex both in vitro and in vivo. To understand the chemical basis of the distinct substrate specificities of these homologous editing domains, we investigated the mechanism of YbaK hydrolysis. Site-directed mutagenesis was carried out at conserved residues in the YbaK superfamily, as well as residues identified by computational docking studies and molecular dynamics simulations. Moreover, substrate specificity of YbaK was probed using isosteric amino acids. Our data support a mechanism of catalysis that exploits the unique chemistry of the substrate sidechain thiol. Taken together, these studies allow us to propose a novel “triple-sieve” mechanism of editing in which the INS domain of ProRS and YbaK co-evolved distinct mechanisms involving steric exclusion and thiol specific chemistry, respectively, to ensure accurate decoding of Pro codons. YbaK is known as a general Cys-tRNA deacylase in vitro, deacylating both mischarged Cys-tRNA
Pro
and correctly charged Cys-tRNA
Cys
. Earlier work suggested that the substrate specificity of YbaK editing is ensured through the formation of a ProRS·tRNA
Pro
·YbaK ternary complex in vitro. To understand the functional interactions between ProRS and YbaK, competition assays in the presence of elongation factor-Tu (EF-Tu) were carried out. These studies suggest that YbaK compensates for a lack of tRNA recognition by interacting with the corresponding aaRS, either CysRS or ProRS. Split-GFP reassembly results support the interactions between ProRS, CysRS, and YbaK in the cell. Crystallization of the ProRS·tRNA
Pro
·YbaK ternary complex was also initiated to understand the interactions of ProRS and YbaK at atomic resolution.
Committee
Karin Musier-Forsyth (Committee Chair)
Mike Ibba (Committee Member)
Thomas J. Magliery (Committee Member)
Dehua Pei (Committee Member)
Pages
132 p.
Subject Headings
Chemistry
Keywords
aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
;
editing homolg
;
YbaK protein
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So, B. R. (2010).
Characterization of the Cys-tRNA
Pro
Editing Mechanism and Functional Interactions of Bacterial YbaK Protein
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268257970
APA Style (7th edition)
So, Byung Ran.
Characterization of the Cys-tRNA
Pro
Editing Mechanism and Functional Interactions of Bacterial YbaK Protein.
2010. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268257970.
MLA Style (8th edition)
So, Byung Ran. "Characterization of the Cys-tRNA
Pro
Editing Mechanism and Functional Interactions of Bacterial YbaK Protein." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268257970
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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