Mimicry of Canonical Translation Elongation Underlies Alanine Tail Synthesis in RQC

  • Sebastian Filbeck
  • , Federico Cerullo
  • , Helge Paternoga
  • , George Tsaprailis
  • , Claudio A.P. Joazeiro
  • , Stefan Pfeffer

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    Abstract

    Incompletely made nascent chains are tagged for proteolysis by ribosome-associated quality control (RQC). In bacterial RQC, this is mediated by C-terminal alanine tailing. Filbeck et al. elucidate the structural basis for alanine tailing using cryo-EM, discover Hsp15/RqcP as an essential factor, and reveal that C-terminal tailing follows similar principles to canonical translation elongation.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)104-114.e6
    JournalMolecular cell
    Volume81
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 7 2021

    Keywords

    • Hsp15
    • RQC
    • RqcH
    • RqcP
    • SsrA
    • alanine tailing
    • cryo-EM
    • ribosome-associated quality control
    • ribosomes
    • translation elongation

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Molecular Biology
    • Cell Biology

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