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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 59, Issue 2, Pages 677-688Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04972.x
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Zymocin-induced cell death in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires the toxin-target (TOT) effector Elongator, a protein complex with functions in transcription, exocytosis and tRNA modification. In line with the latter, trm9 Delta cells lacking a tRNA methylase specific for wobble uridine (U-34) residues survive zymocin and in excess, the Trm9 substrate tRNA(Glu) copies zymocin protection of Elongator mutants. Phenotypes typical of a tot3/elp3 Delta Elongator mutant are absent from trm9 Delta cells but copied in a tot3 Delta trm9 Delta double mutant suggesting that Elongator acts upstream of Trm9. Consistent with Elongator-dependent tRNA modification being more important to mRNA decoding than Trm9, SUP4 and SOE1TRNA suppressors are highly sensitive to loss of Elongator and tRNA U-34 hypomodification. As Trm9 overexpression counteracts the effect of high-copy tRNA(Glu), zymocin suppression by high-copy tRNA(Glu) may reflect tRNA hypomethylation of trm9 Delta cells. Thus, Trm9 methylation may enable recognition of tRNA by zymocin, a notion supported by a dramatic reduction of tRNA(Glu) levels in zymocin-treated cells and by cytotoxic zymocin residues conserved between bacterial nucleases and a tRNA modifying GTPase. In sum, Trm9 is a bona fideTOT pathway component whose methylation may be hijacked by zymocin to target tRNA function and eventually, mRNA translation.
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