Translation Initiation with Initiator tRNA Charged with Exotic Peptides
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- Yuki Goto
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology and Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Hiroaki Suga
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology and Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2009-03-20
- DOI
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- 10.1021/ja900597d
- 公開者
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
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説明
In the prokaryotic translation system formylmethionyl-tRNA(fMet)(CAU) acts as an exclusive initiator to yield peptides bearing formylmethionine at the N-terminus. We herein report a new methodology to initiate the translation reaction with peptidyl-tRNA(fMet)(CAU) in which the peptidyl group consists of unusual building blocks, such as D-amino acids, beta-amino acids, and N-methyl amino acids, and express peptides containing a stretch of exotic peptides at the N-terminus. Synthesis of the initiator peptidyl-tRNAs was facilitated by flexizyme, a flexible tRNA aminoacylation ribozyme, and the start codon was reprogrammed by withdrawing methionine from a reconstituted E. coli cell-free translation system to reassign the initiator from formylmethionine to exotic peptides. This represents the first demonstration for initiating the ribosomal peptide synthesis with peptides, which offers us a new tool for the synthesis of a wide variety of unusual peptides and also the mechanistic studies on the initiation and/or elongation events in translation.
収録刊行物
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- Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (14), 5040-5041, 2009-03-20
American Chemical Society (ACS)