title: Structure of yeast Dom34: a protein related to translation termination factor Erf1 and involved in No-Go decay.
abstract: The yeast protein Dom34 has been described to play a critical role in a newly identified mRNA decay pathway called No-Go decay. This pathway clears cells from mRNAs inducing translational stalls through endonucleolytic cleavage. Dom34 is related to the translation termination factor eRF1 and physically interacts with Hbs1, which is itself related to eRF3. We have solved the 2.5-A resolution crystal structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dom34. This protein is organized in three domains with the central and C-terminal domains structurally homologous to those from eRF1. The N-terminal domain of Dom34 is different from eRF1. It adopts a Sm-fold that is often involved in the recognition of mRNA stem loops or in the recruitment of mRNA degradation machinery. The comparison of eRF1 and Dom34 domains proposed to interact directly with eRF3 and Hbs1, respectively, highlights striking structural similarities with eRF1 motifs identified to be crucial for the binding to eRF3. In addition, as observed for eRF1 that enhances eRF3 binding to GTP, the interaction of Dom34 with Hbs1 results in an increase in the affinity constant of Hbs1 for GTP but not GDP. Taken together, these results emphasize that eukaryotic cells have evolved two structurally related complexes able to interact with ribosomes either paused at a stop codon or stalled in translation by the presence of a stable stem loop and to trigger ribosome release by catalyzing chemical bond hydrolysis.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biochimie et de Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Paris-Sud, UMR8619-CNRS, IFR115, F-91405 Orsay, France. marc.graille@u-psud.fr
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Graille
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chaillet
authors.forename: Herman
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: van Tilbeurgh
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods; D004722:Endoribonucleases; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate / Q000737:chemistry; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000737:chemistry; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D010454:Peptide Termination Factors / Q000737:chemistry; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D012270:Ribosomes / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; C077247:HBS1 protein, S cerevisiae; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors; D010454:Peptide Termination Factors; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C087971:peptide-chain-release factor 3; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; C112808:Dom34 protein, S cerevisiae; D004722:Endoribonucleases; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins