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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 2127-2136Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.9.2127
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A-site binding; fast kinetics; IF3-dependent GTPase; phosphate release; translation initiation
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Binding of the 50S ribosomal subunit to the 30S initiation complex and the subsequent transition from the initiation to the elongation phase up to the synthesis of the first peptide bond represent crucial steps in the translation pathway. The reactions that characterize these transitions were analyzed by quench-flow and fluorescence stopped-flow kinetic techniques. IF2-dependent GTP hydrolysis was fast (30/s) followed by slow P-i release from the complex (1.5/s), The latter step was rate limiting for subsequent A-site binding of EF-Tu.GTP.Phe-tRN4(Phe) ternary complex. Most of the elemental rate constants of A-site binding mere similar to those measured on poly(U), with the notable exception of the formation of the first peptide bond which occurred at a rate of 0.2/s. Omission of GTP or its replacement with GDP had no effect, indicating that neither the adjustment of fMet-tRNA(fMet) in the P site nor the release of IF2 from the ribosome required GTP hydrolysis.
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