Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Structural insights into ribosomal rescue by Dom34 and Hbs1 at near-atomic resolution

  • Tarek Hilal,
  • Hiroshi Yamamoto,
  • Justus Loerke,
  • Jörg Bürger,
  • Thorsten Mielke,
  • Christian M.T. Spahn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13521
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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mRNA surveillance is essential to maintain homeostasis in eukaryotes and is activated by mRNAs lacking a stop codon. Here the authors describe a high resolution cryo-EM structure of a nonstop complex that shows how arrested ribosome recognition is achieved during Dom34-mediated mRNA surveillance.