5gak

Yeast 60S ribosomal subunit with A-site tRNA, P-site tRNA and eIF-5AYeast 60S ribosomal subunit with A-site tRNA, P-site tRNA and eIF-5A

5gak, resolution 3.88Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Structural highlights 5gak is a 10 chain structure with sequence from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: Electron Microscopy, Resolution 3.88Å Ligands: Experimental data: Check Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function RL23A_YEAST Publication Abstract from PubMed During protein synthesis, ribosomes become stalled on polyproline-containing sequences, unless they are rescued in archaea and eukaryotes by the initiation factor 5A (a/eIF-5A) and in bacteria by the homologous protein EF-P. While a structure of EF-P bound to the 70S ribosome exists, structural insight into eIF-5A on the 80S ribosome has been lacking. Here we present a cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of eIF-5A bound to the yeast 80S ribosome at 3.9 A resolution. The structure reveals that the unique and functionally essential post-translational hypusine modification reaches toward the peptidyltransferase center of the ribosome, where the hypusine moiety contacts A76 of the CCA-end of the P-site tRNA. These findings would support a model whereby eIF-5A stimulates peptide bond formation on polyproline-stalled ribosomes by stabilizing and orienting the CCA-end of the P-tRNA, rather than by directly contributing to the catalysis. Structure of the hypusinylated eukaryotic translation factor eIF-5A bound to the ribosome.,Schmidt C, Becker T, Heuer A, Braunger K, Shanmuganathan V, Pech M, Berninghausen O, Wilson DN, Beckmann R Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Dec 28. pii: gkv1517. PMID:26715760 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Transfer RNA (tRNA)