Programmed Deviations of Ribosomes From Standard Decoding in Archaea

Copyright © 2021 De Lise, Strazzulli, Iacono, Curci, Di Fenza, Maurelli, Moracci and Cobucci-Ponzano..

Genetic code decoding, initially considered to be universal and immutable, is now known to be flexible. In fact, in specific genes, ribosomes deviate from the standard translational rules in a programmed way, a phenomenon globally termed recoding. Translational recoding, which has been found in all domains of life, includes a group of events occurring during gene translation, namely stop codon readthrough, programmed ± 1 frameshifting, and ribosome bypassing. These events regulate protein expression at translational level and their mechanisms are well known and characterized in viruses, bacteria and eukaryotes. In this review we summarize the current state-of-the-art of recoding in the third domain of life. In Archaea, it was demonstrated and extensively studied that translational recoding regulates the decoding of the 21st and the 22nd amino acids selenocysteine and pyrrolysine, respectively, and only one case of programmed -1 frameshifting has been reported so far in Saccharolobus solfataricus P2. However, further putative events of translational recoding have been hypothesized in other archaeal species, but not extensively studied and confirmed yet. Although this phenomenon could have some implication for the physiology and adaptation of life in extreme environments, this field is still underexplored and genes whose expression could be regulated by recoding are still poorly characterized. The study of these recoding episodes in Archaea is urgently needed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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Frontiers in microbiology - 12(2021) vom: 09., Seite 688061

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

De Lise, Federica [VerfasserIn]
Strazzulli, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Iacono, Roberta [VerfasserIn]
Curci, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Di Fenza, Mauro [VerfasserIn]
Maurelli, Luisa [VerfasserIn]
Moracci, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Cobucci-Ponzano, Beatrice [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alpha-fucosidase
Archaea
Frameshifting
Journal Article
Pyrrolysine
Recoding
Review
Selenocysteine

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Date Revised 22.06.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fmicb.2021.688061

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NLM326971327