Abstract：
:In most bacteria, two tRNAs decode the four arginine CGN codons. One tRNA harboring a wobble inosine (tRNA(Arg)ICG) reads the CGU, CGC and CGA codons, whereas a second tRNA harboring a wobble cytidine (tRNA(Arg)CCG) reads the remaining CGG codon. The reduced genomes of Mycoplasmas and other Mollicutes lack the gene encoding tRNA(Arg)CCG. This raises the question of how these organisms decode CGG codons. Examination of 36 Mollicute genomes for genes encoding tRNA(Arg) and the TadA enzyme, responsible for wobble inosine formation, suggested an evolutionary scenario where tadA gene mutations first occurred. This allowed the temporary accumulation of non-deaminated tRNA(Arg)ACG, capable of reading all CGN codons. This hypothesis was verified in Mycoplasma capricolum, which contains a small fraction of tRNA(Arg)ACG with a non-deaminated wobble adenosine. Subsets of Mollicutes continued to evolve by losing both the mutated tRNA(Arg)CCG and tadA, and then acquired a new tRNA(Arg)UCG. This permitted further tRNA(Arg)ACG mutations with tRNA(Arg)GCG or its disappearance, leaving a single tRNA(Arg)UCG to decode the four CGN codons. The key point of our model is that the A-to-I deamination activity had to be controlled before the loss of the tadA gene, allowing the stepwise evolution of Mollicutes toward an alternative decoding strategy.
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Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Yokobori S,Kitamura A,Grosjean H,Bessho Ydoi
10.1093/nar/gkt356subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-07-01 00:00:00pages
6531-43issue
13eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962pii
gkt356journal_volume
41pub_type
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