Schön A, Böck A, Ott G, Sprinzl M, Söll D
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1989 Sep 25;17(18):7159-65. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.18.7159.
Selenocysteine is cotranslationally incorporated into selenoproteins in a unique pathway involving tRNA mediated suppression of a UGA nonsense codon (1-3). The DNA sequence of the gene for this suppressor tRNA from Escherichia coli predicts unusual features of the gene product (4). We determined the sequence of this serine tRNA (tRNA(UCASer]. It is the longest tRNA (95 nt) known to date with an acceptor stem of 8 base pairs and lacks some of the 'invariant' nucleotides found in other tRNAs. It is the first E. coli tRNA that contains the hypermodified nucleotide i6A, adjacent to the UGA-recognizing anticodon UCA. The implications of the unusual structure and modification of this tRNA on recognition by seryl-tRNA synthetase, by tRNA modifying enzymes, and on codon recognition are discussed.
硒代半胱氨酸通过一种独特的途径共翻译掺入硒蛋白中,该途径涉及tRNA介导的对UGA无义密码子的抑制(1-3)。来自大肠杆菌的这种抑制性tRNA基因的DNA序列预测了该基因产物的异常特征(4)。我们确定了这种丝氨酸tRNA(tRNA[UCASer])的序列。它是迄今为止已知最长的tRNA(95个核苷酸),其接受茎有8个碱基对,并且缺少其他tRNA中发现的一些“不变”核苷酸。它是第一个含有与识别UGA的反密码子UCA相邻的超修饰核苷酸i6A的大肠杆菌tRNA。讨论了这种tRNA异常结构和修饰对丝氨酰-tRNA合成酶识别、tRNA修饰酶识别以及密码子识别的影响。