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Delayed rRNA Processing Results in Significant Ribosome Biogenesis and Functional Defects
Author(s) -
Arturas Meškauskas,
Jennifer L. Baxter,
Edward G. Carr,
Jason Yasenchak,
Jennifer E. G. Gallagher,
Susan J. Baserga,
Jonathan D. Dinman
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
molecular and cellular biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.14
H-Index - 327
eISSN - 1067-8824
pISSN - 0270-7306
DOI - 10.1128/mcb.23.5.1602-1613.2003
Subject(s) - biology , ribosome , translational frameshift , ribosome biogenesis , frameshift mutation , histone deacetylase , ribosomal rna , microbiology and biotechnology , 23s ribosomal rna , genetics , transfer rna , mutation , histone , rna , gene
mof6-1 was originally isolated as a recessive mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae which promoted increased efficiencies of programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting and rendered cells unable to maintain the killer virus. Here, we demonstrate that mof6-1 is a unique allele of the histone deacetylase RPD3, that the deacetylase function of Rpd3p is required for controlling wild-type levels of frameshifting and virus maintenance, and that the closest human homolog can fully complement these defects. Loss of the Rpd3p-associated histone deacetylase function, either by mutants of rpd3 or loss of the associated gene product Sin3p or Sap30p, results in a delay in rRNA processing rather than in an rRNA transcriptional defect. This results in production of ribosomes having lower affinities for aminoacyl-tRNA and diminished peptidyltransferase activities. We hypothesize that decreased rates of peptidyl transfer allow ribosomes with both A and P sites occupied by tRNAs to pause for longer periods of time at -1 frameshift signals, promoting increased programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting efficiencies and subsequent loss of the killer virus. The frameshifting defect is accentuated when the demand for ribosomes is highest, suggesting that rRNA posttranscriptional modification is the bottleneck in ribosome biogenesis.

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