Mistranslation in twelve Escherichia coli ribosomal proteins. Cysteine misincorporation at neutral amino acid residues other than tryptophan - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Mistranslation in twelve Escherichia coli ribosomal proteins. Cysteine misincorporation at neutral amino acid residues other than tryptophan

M Laughrea et al. Eur J Biochem. 1987.

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Abstract

The misincorporation of cysteine (codon: UGU/C) into twelve ribosomal proteins devoid of cysteine has been studied. Although it is generally assumed that cysteine is misincorporated at arginine and tryptophan residues (codons: CGU/U and UGG respectively), our results are consistent with the idea that cysteine is also misincorporated at phenylalanine residues (codon: UUU/C) through a second-position C:U mismatch. Cysteine was found in ribosomal proteins L29, L32/L33 and S10, under conditions where only its misincorporation at neutral residues was measured. Since these proteins contain no tryptophan, the date imply that cysteine has replaced a neutral amino acid other than tryptophan. Because there was a statistically significant correlation between the total level of cysteine in the twelve proteins under study and their content of phenylalanine and arginine residues, we conclude that there is a likelihood of cysteine misincorporation at phenylalanine residues, in addition to its misincorporation at arginine and tryptophan residues. Our measurements are consistent with the existence of a cluster of ribosomal proteins having an average mistranslation frequency of 2.5 X 10(-4)/residue and another having an average mistranslation frequency of 10(-3)/residue. There was three times less cysteine misincorporated into ribosomal protein L1 than into L7/L12, although the L1 mRNA contains eleven CGU/C codons and four UUU/C codons while the L7/L12 mRNA contains only one arginine and two phenylalanine codons (both proteins are free of tryptophan). Furthermore, the mRNAs for both L1 and L7/L12 contain a CGU codon located in the context GUA-codon-GG and there was as much cysteine incorporated at this codon in L7/L12 [Bouadloun, F., Donner, D. and Kurland, C.G. (1983) EMBO J. 2, 1351-1356] than in the whole of L1. This suggests that, relatively speaking, little cysteine is to be found at the phenylalanine and the other ten arginine positions of L1 and that the phenylalanine residues of L7/L12 are particularly error-prone.

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Mistranslation in twelve Escherichia coli ribosomal proteins. Cysteine misincorporation at neutral amino acid residues other than tryptophan - PubMed (original) (raw)