One of the key roles of the 12-subunit eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is to promote the formation of the 43S and 48S pre-initiation complexes (PICs). However, particular contributions of its individual subunits to these two critical initiation reactions remained obscure. Here, we adapted formaldehyde gradient cross-linking protocol to translation studies and investigated the efficiency of the 43S and 48S PIC assembly in knockdowns of individual subunits of human eIF3 known to produce various partial subcomplexes. We revealed that eIF3d constitutes an important intermolecular bridge between eIF3 and the 40S subunit as its elimination from the eIF3 holocomplex severely compromised the 43S PIC assembly. Similarly, subunits eIF3a, c and e were found to represent an important binding force driving eIF3 binding to the 40S subunit. In addition, we demonstrated that eIF3c, and eIF3k and l subunits alter the efficiency of mRNA recruitment to 43S PICs in an opposite manner. Whereas the eIF3c knockdown reduces it, downregulation of eIF3k or eIF3l increases mRNA recruitment, suggesting that the latter subunits possess a regulatory potential. Altogether this study provides new insights into the role of human eIF3 in the initial assembly steps of the translational machinery.

• MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 genetika   MeSH
• formaldehyd farmakologie   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• malé podjednotky ribozomu eukaryotické genetika   MeSH
• messenger RNA genetika   MeSH
• proteiny asociované s mikrotubuly genetika   MeSH
• proteosyntéza genetika   MeSH
• reagencia zkříženě vázaná farmakologie   MeSH
• ribozomy genetika   MeSH
• vazba proteinů MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• EIF3C protein, human MeSH Prohlížeč
• EIF3D protein, human MeSH Prohlížeč
• EIF3K protein, human MeSH Prohlížeč
• EIF3L protein, human MeSH Prohlížeč
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• formaldehyd MeSH
• messenger RNA MeSH
• proteiny asociované s mikrotubuly MeSH
• reagencia zkříženě vázaná MeSH

Ribosome was long considered as a critical yet passive player in protein synthesis. Only recently the role of its basic components, ribosomal RNAs and proteins, in translational control has begun to emerge. Here we examined function of the small ribosomal protein uS3/Rps3, earlier shown to interact with eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF3, in termination. We identified two residues in consecutive helices occurring in the mRNA entry pore, whose mutations to the opposite charge either reduced (K108E) or increased (R116D) stop codon readthrough. Whereas the latter increased overall levels of eIF3-containing terminating ribosomes in heavy polysomes in vivo indicating slower termination rates, the former specifically reduced eIF3 amounts in termination complexes. Combining these two mutations with the readthrough-reducing mutations at the extreme C-terminus of the a/Tif32 subunit of eIF3 either suppressed (R116D) or exacerbated (K108E) the readthrough phenotypes, and partially corrected or exacerbated the defects in the composition of termination complexes. In addition, we found that K108 affects efficiency of termination in the termination context-specific manner by promoting incorporation of readthrough-inducing tRNAs. Together with the multiple binding sites that we identified between these two proteins, we suggest that Rps3 and eIF3 closely co-operate to control translation termination and stop codon readthrough.

• MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• geneticky modifikované organismy MeSH
• proteosyntéza genetika   MeSH
• ribozomální proteiny genetika   fyziologie   MeSH
• ribozomy metabolismus   MeSH
• RNA transferová metabolismus   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny genetika   fyziologie   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• terminace translace peptidového řetězce * genetika   MeSH
• terminační kodon metabolismus   MeSH
• vazba proteinů MeSH
• vazebná místa genetika   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• ribozomální proteiny MeSH
• RNA transferová MeSH
• RPS3 protein, S cerevisiae MeSH Prohlížeč
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny MeSH
• terminační kodon MeSH

eIF3 is a large multiprotein complex serving as an essential scaffold promoting binding of other eIFs to the 40S subunit, where it coordinates their actions during translation initiation. Perhaps due to a high degree of flexibility of multiple eIF3 subunits, a high-resolution structure of free eIF3 from any organism has never been solved. Employing genetics and biochemistry, we previously built a 2D interaction map of all five yeast eIF3 subunits. Here we further improved the previously reported in vitro reconstitution protocol of yeast eIF3, which we cross-linked and trypsin-digested to determine its overall shape in 3D by advanced mass-spectrometry. The obtained cross-links support our 2D subunit interaction map and reveal that eIF3 is tightly packed with its WD40 and RRM domains exposed. This contrasts with reported cryo-EM structures depicting eIF3 as a molecular embracer of the 40S subunit. Since the binding of eIF1 and eIF5 further fortified the compact architecture of eIF3, we suggest that its initial contact with the 40S solvent-exposed side makes eIF3 to open up and wrap around the 40S head with its extended arms. In addition, we mapped the position of eIF5 to the region below the P- and E-sites of the 40S subunit.

• MeSH
• elektronová kryomikroskopie MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 1 chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 5 chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• iniciace translace peptidového řetězce * MeSH
• malé podjednotky ribozomu eukaryotické genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• molekulární modely MeSH
• proteinové domény MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetika   metabolismus   ultrastruktura   MeSH
• vazba proteinů MeSH
• vazebná místa genetika   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 1 MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 5 MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny MeSH

Protein synthesis is mediated via numerous molecules including the ribosome, mRNA, tRNAs, as well as translation initiation, elongation and release factors. Some of these factors play several roles throughout the entire process to ensure proper assembly of the preinitiation complex on the right mRNA, accurate selection of the initiation codon, errorless production of the encoded polypeptide and its proper termination. Perhaps, the most intriguing of these multitasking factors is the eukaryotic initiation factor eIF3. Recent evidence strongly suggests that this factor, which coordinates the progress of most of the initiation steps, does not come off the initiation complex upon subunit joining, but instead it remains bound to 80S ribosomes and gradually falls off during the first few elongation cycles to: (1) promote resumption of scanning on the same mRNA molecule for reinitiation downstream-in case of translation of upstream ORFs short enough to preserve eIF3 bound; or (2) come back during termination on long ORFs to fine tune its fidelity or, if signaled, promote programmed stop codon readthrough. Here, we unite recent structural views of the eIF3-40S complex and discus all known eIF3 roles to provide a broad picture of the eIF3's impact on translational control in eukaryotic cells.

• MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• konformace proteinů * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• messenger RNA genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• molekulární modely MeSH
• podjednotky proteinů chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• proteosyntéza * MeSH
• ribozomy genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• vazba proteinů MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Názvy látek
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• messenger RNA MeSH
• podjednotky proteinů MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny MeSH

The 12-subunit mammalian eIF3 is the largest and most complex translation initiation factor and has been implicated in numerous steps of translation initiation, termination and ribosomal recycling. Imbalanced eIF3 expression levels are observed in various types of cancer and developmental disorders, but the consequences of altered eIF3 subunit expression on its overall structure and composition, and on translation in general, remain unclear. We present the first complete in vivo study monitoring the effects of RNAi knockdown of each subunit of human eIF3 on its function, subunit balance and integrity. We show that the eIF3b and octameric eIF3a subunits serve as the nucleation core around which other subunits assemble in an ordered way into two interconnected modules: the yeast-like core and the octamer, respectively. In the absence of eIF3b neither module forms in vivo, whereas eIF3d knock-down results in severe proliferation defects with no impact on eIF3 integrity. Disrupting the octamer produces an array of subcomplexes with potential roles in translational regulation. This study, outlining the mechanism of eIF3 assembly and illustrating how imbalanced expression of eIF3 subunits impacts the factor's overall expression profile, thus provides a comprehensive guide to the human eIF3 complex and to the relationship between eIF3 misregulation and cancer.

• MeSH
• down regulace MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 fyziologie   MeSH
• HeLa buňky MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• multimerizace proteinu MeSH
• multiproteinové komplexy metabolismus   MeSH
• proliferace buněk MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Názvy látek
• EIF3A protein, human MeSH Prohlížeč
• EIF3B protein, human MeSH Prohlížeč
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• multiproteinové komplexy MeSH

Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is a central player in recruitment of the pre-initiation complex (PIC) to mRNA. We probed the effects on mRNA recruitment of a library of S. cerevisiae eIF3 functional variants spanning its 5 essential subunits using an in vitro-reconstituted system. Mutations throughout eIF3 disrupt its interaction with the PIC and diminish its ability to accelerate recruitment to a native yeast mRNA. Alterations to the eIF3a CTD and eIF3b/i/g significantly slow mRNA recruitment, and mutations within eIF3b/i/g destabilize eIF2•GTP•Met-tRNAi binding to the PIC. Using model mRNAs lacking contacts with the 40S entry or exit channels, we uncovered a critical role for eIF3 requiring the eIF3a NTD, in stabilizing mRNA interactions at the exit channel, and an ancillary role at the entry channel requiring residues of the eIF3a CTD. These functions are redundant: defects at each channel can be rescued by filling the other channel with mRNA.

• Klíčová slova
• S. cerevisiae, biochemistry, biophysics, eIF3, initiation, mRNA recruitment, ribosome, structural biology, translation, yeast,
• MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• guanosintrifosfát metabolismus   MeSH
• messenger RNA metabolismus   MeSH
• mutační analýza DNA MeSH
• mutantní proteiny genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• podjednotky proteinů genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• proteosyntéza MeSH
• ribozomy metabolismus   MeSH
• RNA transferová Met metabolismus   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Názvy látek
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• guanosintrifosfát MeSH
• messenger RNA MeSH
• mutantní proteiny MeSH
• podjednotky proteinů MeSH
• RNA transferová Met MeSH

Programmed stop codon readthrough is a post-transcription regulatory mechanism specifically increasing proteome diversity by creating a pool of C-terminally extended proteins. During this process, the stop codon is decoded as a sense codon by a near-cognate tRNA, which programs the ribosome to continue elongation. The efficiency of competition for the stop codon between release factors (eRFs) and near-cognate tRNAs is largely dependent on its nucleotide context; however, the molecular mechanism underlying this process is unknown. Here, we show that it is the translation initiation (not termination) factor, namely eIF3, which critically promotes programmed readthrough on all three stop codons. In order to do so, eIF3 must associate with pre-termination complexes where it interferes with the eRF1 decoding of the third/wobble position of the stop codon set in the unfavorable termination context, thus allowing incorporation of near-cognate tRNAs with a mismatch at the same position. We clearly demonstrate that efficient readthrough is enabled by near-cognate tRNAs with a mismatch only at the third/wobble position. Importantly, the eIF3 role in programmed readthrough is conserved between yeast and humans.

• MeSH
• aminoacyl-tRNA metabolismus   MeSH
• elongace translace peptidového řetězce * MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 metabolismus   MeSH
• HeLa buňky MeSH
• iniciace translace peptidového řetězce MeSH
• kvasinky genetika   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• paromomycin farmakologie   MeSH
• regulace genové exprese MeSH
• ribozomy účinky léků   metabolismus   MeSH
• terminační kodon * MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• aminoacyl-tRNA MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• paromomycin MeSH
• terminační kodon * MeSH

Transfer of genetic information from genes into proteins is mediated by messenger RNA (mRNA) that must be first recruited to ribosomal pre-initiation complexes (PICs) by a mechanism that is still poorly understood. Recent studies showed that besides eIF4F and poly(A)-binding protein, eIF3 also plays a critical role in this process, yet the molecular mechanism of its action is unknown. We showed previously that the PCI domain of the eIF3c/NIP1 subunit of yeast eIF3 is involved in RNA binding. To assess the role of the second PCI domain of eIF3 present in eIF3a/TIF32, we performed its mutational analysis and identified a 10-Ala-substitution (Box37) that severely reduces amounts of model mRNA in the 43-48S PICs in vivo as the major, if not the only, detectable defect. Crystal structure analysis of the a/TIF32-PCI domain at 2.65-Å resolution showed that it is required for integrity of the eIF3 core and, similarly to the c/NIP1-PCI, is capable of RNA binding. The putative RNA-binding surface defined by positively charged areas contains two Box37 residues, R363 and K364. Their substitutions with alanines severely impair the mRNA recruitment step in vivo suggesting that a/TIF32-PCI represents one of the key domains ensuring stable and efficient mRNA delivery to the PICs.

• MeSH
• alanin genetika   MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• fenotyp MeSH
• iniciace translace peptidového řetězce * MeSH
• malé podjednotky ribozomu eukaryotické metabolismus   MeSH
• messenger RNA metabolismus   MeSH
• molekulární modely MeSH
• mutace MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny chemie   genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• substituce aminokyselin MeSH
• terciární struktura proteinů MeSH
• transkripční faktory bZIP genetika   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• alanin MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• GCN4 protein, S cerevisiae MeSH Prohlížeč
• messenger RNA MeSH
• NIP1 protein, S cerevisiae MeSH Prohlížeč
• RPG1 protein, S cerevisiae MeSH Prohlížeč
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny MeSH
• transkripční faktory bZIP MeSH

Translation is divided into initiation, elongation, termination and ribosome recycling. Earlier work implicated several eukaryotic initiation factors (eIFs) in ribosomal recycling in vitro. Here, we uncover roles for HCR1 and eIF3 in translation termination in vivo. A substantial proportion of eIF3, HCR1 and eukaryotic release factor 3 (eRF3) but not eIF5 (a well-defined "initiation-specific" binding partner of eIF3) specifically co-sediments with 80S couples isolated from RNase-treated heavy polysomes in an eRF1-dependent manner, indicating the presence of eIF3 and HCR1 on terminating ribosomes. eIF3 and HCR1 also occur in ribosome- and RNA-free complexes with both eRFs and the recycling factor ABCE1/RLI1. Several eIF3 mutations reduce rates of stop codon read-through and genetically interact with mutant eRFs. In contrast, a slow growing deletion of hcr1 increases read-through and accumulates eRF3 in heavy polysomes in a manner suppressible by overexpressed ABCE1/RLI1. Based on these and other findings we propose that upon stop codon recognition, HCR1 promotes eRF3·GDP ejection from the post-termination complexes to allow binding of its interacting partner ABCE1/RLI1. Furthermore, the fact that high dosage of ABCE1/RLI1 fully suppresses the slow growth phenotype of hcr1Δ as well as its termination but not initiation defects implies that the termination function of HCR1 is more critical for optimal proliferation than its function in translation initiation. Based on these and other observations we suggest that the assignment of HCR1 as a bona fide eIF3 subunit should be reconsidered. Together our work characterizes novel roles of eIF3 and HCR1 in stop codon recognition, defining a communication bridge between the initiation and termination/recycling phases of translation.

• MeSH
• ABC transportéry genetika   MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 genetika   MeSH
• iniciační faktory genetika   MeSH
• mutace MeSH
• proteosyntéza * MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny genetika   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetika   MeSH
• sekvence aminokyselin MeSH
• terminace translace peptidového řetězce * MeSH
• terminační kodon genetika   MeSH
• vazba proteinů MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• ABC transportéry MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• HCR1 protein, S cerevisiae MeSH Prohlížeč
• iniciační faktory MeSH
• RLI1 protein, S cerevisiae MeSH Prohlížeč
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny MeSH
• terminační kodon MeSH

In eukaryotes, for a protein to be synthesized, the 40 S subunit has to first scan the 5'-UTR of the mRNA until it has encountered the AUG start codon. Several initiation factors that ensure high fidelity of AUG recognition were identified previously, including eIF1A, eIF1, eIF2, and eIF5. In addition, eIF3 was proposed to coordinate their functions in this process as well as to promote their initial binding to 40 S subunits. Here we subjected several previously identified segments of the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the eIF3c/Nip1 subunit, which mediates eIF3 binding to eIF1 and eIF5, to semirandom mutagenesis to investigate the molecular mechanism of eIF3 involvement in these reactions. Three major classes of mutant substitutions or internal deletions were isolated that affect either the assembly of preinitiation complexes (PICs), scanning for AUG, or both. We show that eIF5 binds to the extreme c/Nip1-NTD (residues 1-45) and that impairing this interaction predominantly affects the PIC formation. eIF1 interacts with the region (60-137) that immediately follows, and altering this contact deregulates AUG recognition. Together, our data indicate that binding of eIF1 to the c/Nip1-NTD is equally important for its initial recruitment to PICs and for its proper functioning in selecting the translational start site.

• MeSH
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• iniciace translace peptidového řetězce fyziologie   MeSH
• kodon iniciační genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• malé podjednotky ribozomu eukaryotické genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• multiproteinové komplexy genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• eukaryotický iniciační faktor 3 MeSH
• kodon iniciační MeSH
• multiproteinové komplexy MeSH
• NIP1 protein, S cerevisiae MeSH Prohlížeč
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny MeSH