Atomistic simulations of the Escherichia coli ribosome provide selection criteria for translationally active substrates.
Atomistic simulations of the Escherichia coli ribosome provide selection criteria for translationally active substrates.
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10.1038/s41557-023-01226-w
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2023-07
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21.8
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As genetic code expansion advances beyond l-α-amino acids to backbone modifications and new polymerization chemistries, delineating what substrates the ribosome can accommodate remains a challenge. The Escherichia coli ribosome tolerates non-l-α-amino acids in vitro, but few structural insights that explain how are available, and the boundary conditions for efficient bond formation are so far unknown. Here we determine a high-resolution cryogenic electron microscopy structure of the E. coli ribosome containing α-amino acid monomers and use metadynamics simulations to define energy surface minima and understand incorporation efficiencies. Reactive monomers across diverse structural classes favour a conformational space where the aminoacyl-tRNA nucleophile is <4 Å from the peptidyl-tRNA carbonyl with a Bürgi–Dunitz angle of 76–115°. Monomers with free energy minima that fall outside this conformational space do not react efficiently. This insight should accelerate the in vivo and in vitro ribosomal synthesis of sequence-defined, non-peptide heterooligomers. Genetic code expansion to incorporate non-α-amino acid monomers is limited by predictability of monomer reactivities in the context of the ribosome. Now the use of metadynamics simulations of pre-attack monomers in the ribosomal peptidyl transferase centre provides insight on whether an A-site monomer is likely to be reactive.
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