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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 1186-1191Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb861
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM67624, GM23037] Funding Source: Medline
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The natural modification of specific nucleosides in many tRNAs is essential during decoding of mRNA by the ribosome. For example, tRNA(UUU)(Lys) requires the modification N6-threonylcarbamoyladenosine at position 37 (t(6)A37), adjacent and 3 to the anticodon, to bind AAA in the A site of the ribosomal 30S subunit. Moreover, it can only bind both AAA and AAG lysine codons when doubly modified with t(6)A37 and either 5-methylaminomethyluridine or 2-thiouridine at the wobble position (mnm(5)U34 or s(2)U34). Here we report crystal structures of modified tRNA anticodon stem-loops bound to the 30S ribosomal subunit with lysine codons in the A site. These structures allow the rationalization of how modifications in the anticodon loop enable decoding of both lysine codons AAA and AAG.
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