Innate immune and chemically triggered oxidative stress modifies translational fidelity.
Innate immune and chemically triggered oxidative stress modifies translational fidelity.
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Translational fidelity, essential for protein and cell function, requires accurate tRNA aminoacylation. Purified aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases exhibit a fidelity of 1 error per 10,000 to 100,000 couplings. The accuracy of tRNA aminoacylation in vivo is uncertain, however, and might be considerably lower. Here, we show that in mammalian cells, approximately 1% of methionine (Met) residues used in protein synthesis are aminoacylated to non-methionyl-tRNAs. Remarkably, Met-misacylation increases up to 10-fold upon exposing cells to live or non-infectious viruses, toll-like receptor ligands, or chemically induced oxidative stress. Met is misacylated to specific non-methionyl-tRNA families, and these Met-misacylated tRNAs are used in translation. Met-misacylation is blocked by an inhibitor of cellular oxidases, implicating reactive oxygen species (ROS) as the misacylation trigger. Among six amino acids tested, tRNA misacylation occurs exclusively with Met. As Met residues are known to protect proteins against ROS-mediated damage, we propose that Met-misacylation functions adaptively to increase Met incorporation into proteins to protect cells against oxidative stress. In demonstrating an unexpected conditional aspect of decoding mRNA, our findings illustrate the importance of considering alternative iterations of the genetic code.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0802779105
发表时间:
2008-10-28
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Bender, Aline;Hajieva, Parvana;Moosmann, Bernd
通讯作者:
Moosmann, Bernd
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0809179105
发表时间:
2008-10-28
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Ruan, Benfang;Palioura, Sotiria;Soell, Dieter
通讯作者:
Soell, Dieter
影响因子:
11.4
作者:
Silva, Raquel M.;Paredes, Joao A.;Santos, Manuel As
通讯作者:
Santos, Manuel As
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2136934100
发表时间:
2003-12-23
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Ahel, I;Korencic, D;Söll, D
通讯作者:
Söll, D
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0809677105
发表时间:
2008-11-25
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Malhotra, Jyoti D.;Miao, Hongzhi;Kaufman, Randal J.
通讯作者:
Kaufman, Randal J.