Darrell R. Davis Department of Medicinal Chemistry Translation and tRNAs
Ribosome
Overall Structure of Ribosome
RNA structures of Large Subunit
tRNAs on the Ribosome
Some Tetraloops in 16S RNA RNA Secondary Structure
tRNA Phe
Yeast tRNA Folding Saenger
Unusual Pairing in tRNAs
Base Stacking and Intercalation
U-turns, The Anticodon
Circles represent nucleosides that are Always present. Gold are invariant or semivariant The RNA Modification Database tRNA Modifications in Eukarya and Bacteria
Grosjean, H., Chantrenne, H. (1980) Mol. Biol. Biochem. Biophys.32, RNA (0.1 mM, 1 M NaCl) G° 37 kcal/mol H° kcal/mol T m °C GGGCCC CCCGGG AAAUUU UUUAAA AAA UUU Intrinsic properties of 3 base-pair RNA hairpin interactions
Human tRNA Lys,3 and E.coli tRNA Lys
Saenger (1988) “Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure” pp. 347 ms 2 t 6 A (A9) Adenosine Uridine Pseudouridine ( )(F) mcm 5 s 2 U (U9)mnm 5 s 2 U (U8) Codon-Anticodon Interactions
Effects of mnm 5 s 2 U on base-pairing and stacking - s 2 U base pair stabilization
Summary The ribosome is a large “molecular machine” for making proteins tRNAs bind 3 sites on the ribosome, Amino-acyl, Peptidyl, Exit RNAs (rRNA, tRNA, and mRNA) are seldom “linear”, but fold into complex structures. tRNAs can all be folded into a “cloverleaf” secondary structure tRNAs all form an “L-shaped” 3D structure tRNAs contain many non-canonical pairs and triples Modifications are clustered in the functionally important areas Modifications are conserved in the 3 kingdoms of life. Modification in the tRNA anticodon help normalize the binding affinity for the mRNA.