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CELL REPORTS
Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111539
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- NIH
- [R35 GM134931]
- [R01 HG006753]
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This study demonstrates the impact of m(1)G37 on resolving codon usage bias and its role in cell viability. Results show that m(1)G37 plays a crucial role in neutralizing differential translation of proline codons.
Codon usage of each genome is closely correlated with the abundance of tRNA isoacceptors. How codon usage bias is resolved by tRNA post-transcriptional modifications is largely unknown. Here we demonstrate that the N-1-methylation of guanosine at position 37 (m(1)G37) on the 30-side of the anticodon, while not directly responsible for reading of codons, is a neutralizer that resolves differential decoding of proline codons. A genome-wide suppressor screen of a non-viable Escherichia coli strain, lacking m(1)G37, identifies proS sup-pressor mutations, indicating a coupling of methylation with tRNA prolyl-aminoacylation that sets the limit of cell viability. Using these suppressors, where prolyl-aminoacylation is decoupled from tRNA methylation, we show that m(1)G37 neutralizes differential translation of proline codons by the major isoacceptor. Lack of m(1)G37 inactivates this neutralization and exposes the need for a minor isoacceptor for cell viability. This work has medical implications for bacterial species that exclusively use the major isoacceptor for survival.
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