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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 60, 期 43, 页码 3223-3235出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00507
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 GM 052302]
- National Science Foundation [MCB-1553291, DBI-1759860, ACI-1548562, MCB160069]
- NIH [R35 GM124818]
The presence of charged residues affects protein synthesis speed by influencing the distance between amino acids at different sites on the ribosome. Positively charged residues move amino acids further apart, while negatively charged residues bring them closer together. These mechanochemical changes impact the transition state barrier height for peptide bond formation.
The speed of protein synthesis can dramatically change when consecutively charged residues are incorporated into an elongating nascent protein by the ribosome. The molecular origins of this class of allosteric coupling remain unknown. We demonstrate, using multiscale simulations, that positively charged residues generate large forces that move the P-site amino acid away from the A-site amino acid. Negatively charged residues generate forces of similar magnitude but move the A- and P-sites closer together. These conformational changes, respectively, increase and decrease the transition state barrier height to peptide bond formation, explaining how charged residues mechanochemically alter translation speed. This mechanochemical mechanism is consistent with in vivo ribosome profiling data exhibiting proportionality between translation speed and the number of charged residues, experimental data characterizing nascent chain conformations, and a previously published cryo-EM structure of a ribosome-nascent chain complex containing consecutive lysines. These results expand the role of mechanochemistry in translation and provide a framework for interpreting experimental results on translation speed.
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