1n3g

Structural highlights

Function

YFIA_ECOLI During stationary phase, prevents 70S dimer formation, probably in order to regulate translation efficiency during transition between the exponential and the stationary phases. In addition, during environmental stress such as cold shock or excessive cell density at stationary phase, stabilizes the 70S ribosome against dissociation, inhibits translation initiation and increase translation accuracy. When normal growth conditions are restored, is quickly released from the ribosome. Inhibits translation initiation by blocking the A-site (aminoacyl-tRNA site) and P-site (peptidyl-tRNA site) of the ribosome. Counteracts miscoding (translation errors) particularly efficiently at magnesium concentrations close to those observed in vivo but less efficiently at higher concentrations. Counteraction of miscoding was shown to be stronger than inhibition of translation, suggesting that the former activity could be the main function of RaiA in vivo.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Evolutionary Conservation

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References

1. ↑ Agafonov DE, Kolb VA, Nazimov IV, Spirin AS. A protein residing at the subunit interface of the bacterial ribosome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Oct 26;96(22):12345-9. PMID:10535924
2. ↑ Maki Y, Yoshida H, Wada A. Two proteins, YfiA and YhbH, associated with resting ribosomes in stationary phase Escherichia coli. Genes Cells. 2000 Dec;5(12):965-74. PMID:11168583
3. ↑ Agafonov DE, Kolb VA, Spirin AS. Ribosome-associated protein that inhibits translation at the aminoacyl-tRNA binding stage. EMBO Rep. 2001 May;2(5):399-402. PMID:11375931 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/embo-reports/kve091
4. ↑ Agafonov DE, Spirin AS. The ribosome-associated inhibitor A reduces translation errors. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 Jul 23;320(2):354-8. PMID:15219834 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.05.171
5. ↑ Vila-Sanjurjo A, Schuwirth BS, Hau CW, Cate JH. Structural basis for the control of translation initiation during stress. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2004 Nov;11(11):1054-9. Epub 2004 Oct 24. PMID:15502846 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb850
6. ↑ Ueta M, Yoshida H, Wada C, Baba T, Mori H, Wada A. Ribosome binding proteins YhbH and YfiA have opposite functions during 100S formation in the stationary phase of Escherichia coli. Genes Cells. 2005 Dec;10(12):1103-12. PMID:16324148 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2443.2005.00903.x