西亚试剂：：In vivo identification of essential nucleotides

发布时间：2026-02-07

Qian Huang, Peng Yao, Gilbert Eriani and En-Duo Wang

The fidelity of protein biosynthesis requires the aminoacylation of tRNA with its cognate amino acid catalyzed by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase with high levels of accuracy and efficiency. Crucial bases in tRNA^Leu to aminoacylation or editing functions of leucyl-tRNA synthetase have been extensively studied mainly by in vitro methods. In the present study, we constructed two Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNA^Leu knockout strains carrying deletions of the genes for tRNA^Leu(GAG) and tRNA^Leu(UAG). Disrupting the single gene encoding tRNA^Leu(GAG) had no phenotypic consequence when compared to the wild-type strain. While disrupting the three genes for tRNA^Leu(UAG) had a lethal effect on the yeast strain, indicating that tRNA^Leu(UAG) decoding capacity could not be compensated by another tRNA^Leu isoacceptor. Using the triple tRNA knockout strain and a randomly mutated library of tRNA^Leu(UAG), a selection to identify critical tRNA^Leu elements was performed. In this way, mutations inducing in vivo decreases of tRNA levels or aminoacylation or editing ability by leucyl-tRNA synthetase were identified. Overall, the data showed that the triple tRNA knockout strain is a suitable tool for in vivo studies and identification of essential nucleotides of the tRNA.

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