Amicoumacin a inhibits translation by stabilizing mRNA interaction with the ribosome.

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Source:

Mol Cell, Volume 56, Issue 4, p.531-40 (2014)

Keywords:

Anti-Bacterial Agents, Bacterial Proteins, Base Sequence, Binding Sites, Coumarins, Crystallography, X-Ray, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Escherichia coli, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Models, Molecular, Peptide Elongation Factor G, Protein Biosynthesis, Protein Synthesis Inhibitors, Ribosome Subunits, Large, Bacterial, Ribosome Subunits, Small, Bacterial, RNA Stability, RNA, Messenger, Staphylococcus aureus, Thermus thermophilus

Abstract:

<p>We demonstrate that the antibiotic amicoumacin A (AMI) is a potent inhibitor of protein synthesis. Resistance mutations in helix 24 of the 16S rRNA mapped the AMI binding site to the small ribosomal subunit. The crystal structure of bacterial ribosome in complex with AMI solved at 2.4 Å resolution revealed that the antibiotic makes contacts with universally conserved nucleotides of 16S rRNA in the E site and the mRNA backbone. Simultaneous interactions of AMI with 16S rRNA and mRNA and the in vivo experimental evidence suggest that it may inhibit the progression of the ribosome along mRNA. Consistent with this proposal, binding of AMI interferes with translocation in vitro. The inhibitory action of AMI can be partly compensated by mutations in the translation elongation factor G.</p>

PDB: 
4RB5 4RB6 4RB7 4RB8 4RB9 4RBA 4RBB 4RBC 4RBD 4RBE 4RBF 4RBG
Detector: 
Q315
Beamline: 
24-ID-C