Visweswaraiah Jyothsna, Hinnebusch Alan G
Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
Elife. 2017 Feb 7;6:e22572. doi: 10.7554/eLife.22572.
The eukaryotic pre-initiation complex (PIC) bearing the eIF2·GTP·Met-tRNA ternary complex (TC) scans the mRNA for an AUG codon in favorable context. AUG recognition evokes rearrangement of the PIC from an open, scanning to a closed, arrested conformation. Cryo-EM reconstructions of yeast PICs suggest remodeling of the interface between 40S protein Rps5/uS7 and eIF2α between open and closed states; however, its importance was unknown. uS7 substitutions disrupting eIF2α contacts favored in the open complex increase initiation at suboptimal sites, and uS7-S223D stabilizes TC binding to PICs reconstituted with a UUG start codon, indicating inappropriate rearrangement to the closed state. Conversely, uS7-D215 substitutions, perturbing uS7-eIF2α interaction in the closed state, confer the opposite phenotypes of hyperaccuracy and (for D215L) accelerated TC dissociation from reconstituted PICs. Thus, remodeling of the uS7/eIF2α interface appears to stabilize first the open, and then the closed state of the PIC to promote accurate AUG selection in vivo.
携带真核起始因子2(eIF2)·鸟苷三磷酸(GTP)·甲硫氨酰转运核糖核酸(Met-tRNA)三元复合物(TC)的真核生物前起始复合物(PIC)会在mRNA上扫描处于合适上下文环境的AUG密码子。AUG识别会引发PIC从开放的扫描构象重排为封闭的停滞构象。酵母PIC的冷冻电镜重建表明,在开放状态和封闭状态之间,40S核糖体蛋白Rps5/uS7与eIF2α之间的界面发生了重塑;然而,其重要性尚不清楚。破坏开放复合物中有利于eIF2α接触的uS7替代物会增加次优位点的起始,并且uS7-S223D会稳定TC与用UUG起始密码子重建的PIC的结合,这表明不恰当地重排为封闭状态。相反,在封闭状态下扰乱uS7-eIF2α相互作用的uS7-D215替代物会产生相反的表型,即超准确性以及(对于D215L而言)加速TC从重建的PIC中解离。因此,uS7/eIF2α界面的重塑似乎首先稳定PIC的开放状态,然后稳定其封闭状态,以促进体内准确的AUG选择。