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Isolation of Temperature-sensitive Mutant Escherichia coli YrdC Involved in Universal t6 A tRNA Synthesis

대장균에서 t6 A tRNA의 생합성에 관여하는 필수 단백질 YrdC의 온도 민감형 돌연변이 분리

  • Hwang, Jihwan (Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2017.11.21
  • Accepted : 2018.02.07
  • Published : 2018.02.28
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Abstract

The YrdC superfamily is a group of proteins that are highly conserved in almost all organisms sequenced so far. YrdC in Escherichia coli was suggested to be involved in ribosome biogenesis, translation termination, cold adaptation, and threonylcarbamoyl adenosine formation in tRNA. In this study, to unambiguously demonstrate that yrdC is essential in E. coli, we constructed two yrdC mutant strains of E. coli and examined their phenotypes. In the temperature-sensitive yrdC mutant strain, cell growth stopped almost immediately under nonpermissive conditions and it appeared to accumulate 16S ribosomal RNA precursors without significant accumulation of 30S ribosomal subunits. We also cloned yeast and human homologs and demonstrated that they complement the E. coli yrdC-deletion strain. By mutational study, we demonstrated that the concave surface in the middle of the YrdC protein plays an important role in E. coli, yeast, and human versions. By comparison of two yrdC-deletion strains, we also unambiguously demonstrated that yrdC is essential for viability in E. coli and that the functions of its yeast and human homologs overlap with that of E. coli YrdC.

YrdC 수퍼 패밀리는 지금까지 유전 서열이 알려진 거의 모든 생명체에서 매우 잘 보존 된 단백질 중 하나이다. Escherichia coli의 YrdC는 리보솜 생합성, 번역 종결, 저온 적응, tRNA에서 threonylcarbamoyl adenosine의 형성에 관여하는 것으로 제안되었다. 이 연구에서, yrdC 유전자가 대장균에서 필수적이라는 것을 명확하게 증명하기 위해, 대장균에서 두 개의 yrdC 결손 돌연변이 균주를 만들고 그 표현형을 조사하였다. 특히 온도에 민감한 yrdC 돌연변이 균주는 $42^{\circ}C$ 온도 조건 하에서 거의 즉시 세포 성장을 멈추었으며 30S 리보솜 단위체의 상당한 축적없이 16S rRNA 전구체를 축적하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 효모와 인간의 yrdC 유전자를 클로닝하여 이들이 대장균 yrdC 결손 균주의 성장억제를 회복 할 수 있다는 것을 입증하였다. 이밖에도 여러 돌연변이 연구에 의해, 우리는 YrdC 단백질의 중간에 위치한 오목한 표면이 대장균, 효모 및 인간의 YrdC 단백질에서 중요한 역할을 한다는 것을 보여 주었다. 따라서, 두 개의 yrdC 결손 균주를 비교하여, yrdC 유전자가 대장균에서 생존력에 필수적이며, 효모 및 인간 동족체의 기능이 대장균 YrdC의 기능과 중복된다는 것을 규명하였고, 이 균주를 이용하여 아직까지 밝혀지지 않은 대장균 YrdC 단백질이 tRNA 형성에 관여한다는 것을 증명할 수 있는 토대를 제공한다는데 의의가 있다.

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