Fidelity of translation in the presence of mammalian mitochondrial initiation factor 3

Autor: Shreya Ahana Ayyub, Umesh Varshney, Srinivas Aluri, Linda L. Spremulli, S L Aswathy, Divya Dobriyal
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Mitochondrion. 39:1-8
ISSN: 1567-7249
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2017.08.006
Popis: Initiation factor 3 (IF3) is a conserved translation factor. Mutations in mitochondrial IF3 (IF3mt) have been implicated in disease pathology. Escherichia coli infCΔ55, compromised for IF3 activity, has provided an excellent heterologous system for IF3mt structure-function analysis. IF3mt allowed promiscuous initiation from AUA, AUU and ACG codons but avoided initiation with initiator tRNAs lacking the conserved 3GC pairs in their anticodon stems. Expression of IF3mt N-terminal domain, or IF3mt devoid of its typical N-, and C-terminal extensions improved fidelity of initiation in E. coli. The observations suggest that the IF3mt terminal extensions relax the fidelity of translational initiation in mitochondria.
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