Ribosome collisions in bacteria promote ribosome rescue by triggering mRNA cleavage by SmrB
Saito, K.; Kratzat, H.; Campbell, A.; Buschauer, R.; Burroughs, A. M.; Berninghausen, O.; Aravind, L.; Beckmann, R.; Green, R.; Buskirk, A. R.
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Ribosome rescue pathways recycle stalled ribosomes and target problematic mRNAs and aborted proteins for degradation. In bacteria, it remains unclear how rescue pathways distinguish ribosomes stalled in the middle of a transcript from actively translating ribosomes. In a genetic screen in E. coli, we discovered a novel rescue factor that has endonuclease activity. SmrB cleaves mRNAs upstream of stalled ribosomes, allowing the ribosome rescue factor tmRNA (which acts on truncated mRNAs) to rescue upstream ribosomes. SmrB is recruited by ribosome collisions; cryo-EM structures of collided disomes from E. coli and B. subtilis reveal a distinct and conserved arrangement of the individual ribosomes and the composite SmrB binding site. These findings reveal the underlying mechanism by which ribosome collisions trigger ribosome rescue in bacteria.
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