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SCIENCE
Volume 288, Issue 5471, Pages 1640-1643Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1640
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 26494, GM 32384] Funding Source: Medline
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The mechanism by which a signal recognition particle (SRP) and its receptor mediate protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum or to the bacterial plasma membrane is evolutionarily conserved. in Escherichia coli, this reaction is mediated by the Ffh/4.5S RNA ribonucleoprotein complex (Ffh/4.5S RNP; the SRP) and the FtsY protein (the SRP receptor). We have quantified the effects of 4.5S RNA on Ffh-FtsY complex formation by monitoring changes in tryptophan fluorescence. Surprisingly, 4.5S RNA facilitates both assembly and disassembly of the Ffh-FtsY complex to a similar extent. These results provide an example of an RNA molecule facilitating protein-protein interactions in a catalytic fashion.
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