SGD Paper 
Fan-Minogue H and Bedwell DM (2008) Eukaryotic ribosomal RNA determinants of aminoglycoside resistance and their role in translational fidelity. RNA 14(1):148-57
Abstract: Recent studies of prokaryotic ribosomes have dramatically increased our knowledge of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) structure, functional centers, and their interactions with antibiotics. However, much less is known about how rRNA function differs between prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes. The core decoding sites are identical in yeast and human 18S rRNAs, suggesting that insights obtained in studies with yeast rRNA mutants can provide information about ribosome function in both species. In this study, we examined the importance of key nucleotides of the 18S rRNA decoding site on ribosome function and aminoglycoside susceptibility in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells expressing homogeneous populations of mutant ribosomes. We found that residues G577, A1755, and A1756 (corresponding to Escherichia coli residues G530, A1492, and A1493, respectively) are essential for cell viability. We also found that residue G1645 (A1408 in E. coli) and A1754 (G1491 in E. coli) both make significant and distinct contributions to aminoglycoside resistance. Furthermore, we found that mutations at these residues do not alter the basal level of translational accuracy, but influence both paromomycin-induced misreading of sense codons and readthrough of stop codons. This study represents the most comprehensive mutational analysis of the eukaryotic decoding site to date, and suggests that many fundamental features of decoding site function are conserved between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | PubMed ID: 18003936 |
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