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3b31
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| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, RCSB | ||||||
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Crystal structure of domain III of the Cricket Paralysis Virus IRES RNA
Overview
Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) RNAs initiate protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells by a noncanonical cap-independent mechanism. IRESes are critical for many pathogenic viruses, but efforts to understand their function are complicated by the diversity of IRES sequences as well as by limited high-resolution structural information. The intergenic region (IGR) IRESes of the Dicistroviridae viruses are powerful model systems to begin to understand IRES function. Here we present the crystal structure of a Dicistroviridae IGR IRES domain that interacts with the ribosome's decoding groove. We find that this RNA domain precisely mimics the transfer RNA anticodon-messenger RNA codon interaction, and its modeled orientation on the ribosome helps explain translocation without peptide bond formation. When combined with a previous structure, this work completes the first high-resolution description of an IRES RNA and provides insight into how RNAs can manipulate complex biological machines.
About this Structure
3B31 is a Protein complex structure of sequences from [1]. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
tRNA-mRNA mimicry drives translation initiation from a viral IRES., Costantino DA, Pfingsten JS, Rambo RP, Kieft JS, Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2008 Jan;15(1):57-64. Epub 2007 Dec 23. PMID:18157151
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