Translational Control: Discovery and Mechanisms

翻译控制：发现和机制

• 批准号: 10388767
• 负责人: Andrei Korostelev
• 金额: $ 6.97万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10388767
• 关键词: Antibiotic Resistance; Antibiotics; Bacterial Infections; Communicable Diseases; Gene Expression; Gene Expression Regulation; Genetic Diseases; Genetic Transcription; Messenger RNA; Molecular; Mutation; Nonsense Mutation; Organism; Pathogenesis; Pathogenicity; Proteins; Regulation; Ribosomes; Signal Transduction; Stress; Structure; Terminator Codon; Translation Initiation; Translations; Viral; Virus; Virus Diseases; bacterial genetics; biological adaptation to stress; emerging antibiotic resistance; fight against; improved; infectious disease treatment; novel therapeutics

Project Summary/Abstract Ribosomes are at the center of gene expression regulation. Not only do they synthesize proteins, but they regulate transcription and respond to stress signals. The translational control underlies the pathogenesis of infectious and genetic diseases. Translation is a key antibiotic target, but the emergence of antibiotic resistance poses a serious challenge in the fight against infectious diseases. To improve our understanding of the translational control of gene expression in molecular detail, we propose to elucidate the structural mechanisms of (1) translation initiation of viral mRNAs and virus-like cellular mRNAs; (2) bacterial stress responses which couple translation with transcription, conferring bacterial pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance and (3) translation elongation and termination. Understanding these mechanisms may enable discovery of novel drugs for the treatment of viral or bacterial infections or genetic diseases caused by nonsense mutations.

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