TY - JOUR
T1 - Two RNA-binding motifs in eIF3 direct HCV IRES-dependent translation
AU - Sun, Chaomin
AU - Querol-Audí, Jordi
AU - Mortimer, Stefanie A.
AU - Arias-Palomo, Ernesto
AU - Doudna, Jennifer A.
AU - Nogales, Eva
AU - Cate, Jamie H.D.
N1 - Funding Information:
National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R56-AI095687 to J.H.D.C.; P50-GM102706 to J.A.D. and J.H.D.C.]; Spanish Ministry of Education through the Programa Nacional de Movilidad de Recursos Humanos del Plan Nacional de I-D+i 2008-2011 (to E.A.-P.). J.A.D. and E.N. are Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. Funding for open access charge: NIH [P50-GM102706].
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - The initiation of protein synthesis plays an essential regulatory role in human biology. At the center of the initiation pathway, the 13-subunit eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) controls access of other initiation factors and mRNA to the ribosome by unknown mechanisms. Using electron microscopy (EM), bioinformatics and biochemical experiments, we identify two highly conserved RNA-binding motifs in eIF3 that direct translation initiation from the hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site (HCV IRES) RNA. Mutations in the RNA-binding motif of subunit eIF3a weaken eIF3 binding to the HCV IRES and the 40S ribosomal subunit, thereby suppressing eIF2-dependent recognition of the start codon. Mutations in the eIF3c RNA-binding motif also reduce 40S ribosomal subunit binding to eIF3, and inhibit eIF5B-dependent steps downstream of start codon recognition. These results provide the first connection between the structure of the central translation initiation factor eIF3 and recognition of the HCV genomic RNA start codon, molecular interactions that likely extend to the human transcriptome.
AB - The initiation of protein synthesis plays an essential regulatory role in human biology. At the center of the initiation pathway, the 13-subunit eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) controls access of other initiation factors and mRNA to the ribosome by unknown mechanisms. Using electron microscopy (EM), bioinformatics and biochemical experiments, we identify two highly conserved RNA-binding motifs in eIF3 that direct translation initiation from the hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site (HCV IRES) RNA. Mutations in the RNA-binding motif of subunit eIF3a weaken eIF3 binding to the HCV IRES and the 40S ribosomal subunit, thereby suppressing eIF2-dependent recognition of the start codon. Mutations in the eIF3c RNA-binding motif also reduce 40S ribosomal subunit binding to eIF3, and inhibit eIF5B-dependent steps downstream of start codon recognition. These results provide the first connection between the structure of the central translation initiation factor eIF3 and recognition of the HCV genomic RNA start codon, molecular interactions that likely extend to the human transcriptome.
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U2 - 10.1093/nar/gkt510
DO - 10.1093/nar/gkt510
M3 - Article
C2 - 23766293
AN - SCOPUS:84883477130
SN - 0305-1048
VL - 41
SP - 7512
EP - 7521
JO - Nucleic acids research
JF - Nucleic acids research
IS - 15
ER -