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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 282, Issue 35, Pages 25270-25277Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M703894200
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The circularly permuted GTPase YlqF is essential for cell viability and is broadly conserved from Gram-positive bacteria to eukaryotes. We previously reported that YlqF participates in the late step of 50 S ribosomal subunit assembly in Bacillus subtilis. Here, we demonstrate that an N-terminal deletion mutant of YlqF (YlqF Delta N10) inhibits cell growth even in the presence of wild-type YlqF. In contrast to the wild-type protein, the GTPase activity of this mutant was not stimulated by the 50 S subunit and did not dissociate from the premature 50 S subunit. Thus, YlqF Delta N10 acts as a competitive inhibitor of wild-type YlqF. Premature 50 S subunit lacking ribosomal protein L27 and with a reduced amount of L16 accumulated in YlqF Delta N10-overexpressing cells and in YlqF-depleted cells, suggesting that YlqF Delta N10 binds to the premature 50 S subunit. Moreover, premature 50 S subunit from both YlqF Delta N10-overexpressing and YlqF-depleted cells more strongly enhanced the GTPase activity of YlqF than the mature 50 S subunit of the 70 S ribosome. Collectively, our results indicate that YlqF is targeted to the premature 50 S subunit lacking ribosomal proteins L16 and L27 to assemble functional 50 S subunit through a GTPase activity-dependent conformational change of 23 S rRNA.
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