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Structures of the E. coli translating ribosome with SRP and its receptor and with the translocon.

  • Jomaa A Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, ETH Zurich CH-8093, Switzerland.
  • Boehringer D Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, ETH Zurich CH-8093, Switzerland.
  • Leibundgut M Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, ETH Zurich CH-8093, Switzerland.
  • Ban N Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, ETH Zurich CH-8093, Switzerland.
  • 2016-01-26
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  • Nature communications. - 2016
Codon
Cryoelectron Microscopy
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Models, Molecular
Protein Binding
Protein Biosynthesis
Protein Transport
RNA, Messenger
Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
Receptors, Peptide
Ribosomes
Signal Recognition Particle
Transcription Factors
English Co-translational protein targeting to membranes is a universally conserved process. Central steps include cargo recognition by the signal recognition particle and handover to the Sec translocon. Here we present snapshots of key co-translational-targeting complexes solved by cryo-electron microscopy at near-atomic resolution, establishing the molecular contacts between the Escherichia coli translating ribosome, the signal recognition particle and the translocon. Our results reveal the conformational changes that regulate the latching of the signal sequence, the release of the heterodimeric domains of the signal recognition particle and its receptor, and the handover of the signal sequence to the translocon. We also observe that the signal recognition particle and the translocon insert-specific structural elements into the ribosomal tunnel to remodel it, possibly to sense nascent chains. Our work provides structural evidence for a conformational state of the signal recognition particle and its receptor primed for translocon binding to the ribosome-nascent chain complex.
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