The ABCF proteins in Escherichia coli individually cope with 'hard-to-translate' nascent peptide sequences

Y Chadani, S Yamanouchi, E Uemura… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Organisms possess a wide variety of proteins with diverse amino acid sequences, and their
synthesis relies on the ribosome. Empirical observations have led to the misconception that …

An antibiotic preorganized for ribosomal binding overcomes antimicrobial resistance

KJY Wu, BIC Tresco, A Ramkissoon, EV Aleksandrova… - Science, 2024 - science.org
We report the design conception, chemical synthesis, and microbiological evaluation of the
bridged macrobicyclic antibiotic cresomycin (CRM), which overcomes evolutionarily diverse …

Structural basis of Cfr-mediated antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms to evade it

EV Aleksandrova, KJY Wu, BIC Tresco… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
The bacterial ribosome is an essential drug target as many clinically important antibiotics
bind and inhibit its functional centers. The catalytic peptidyl transferase center (PTC) is …

Resolution of ribosomal stalling by EF-P and ABCF ATPases YfmR and YkpA/YbiT

H Takada, K Fujiwara, GC Atkinson… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Efficiency of protein synthesis on the ribosome is strongly affected by the amino acid
composition of the assembled amino acid chain. Challenging sequences include proline …

Cryo-EM studies of the four E. coli paralogs establish ABCF proteins as master plumbers of the peptidyl-transferase center of the ribosome

S Singh, RC Gentry, Z Fu, NA Bailey, CG Altomare… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The genomes of most mesophilic organisms encode multiple A TP-B inding C assette F
(ABCF) proteins. EttA, one of four E. coli paralogs, regulates synthesis of the first peptide …

Machine learning-based classification reveals distinct clusters of non-coding genomic allelic variations associated with Erm-mediated antibiotic resistance

Y Tan, AL Scornet, MNF Yap, D Zhang - mSystems, 2024 - journals.asm.org
The erythromycin resistance RNA methyltransferase (erm) confers cross-resistance to all
therapeutically important macrolides, lincosamides, and streptogramins (MLS phenotype) …

The ABCF proteins in Escherichia coli individually alleviate nascent peptide-induced noncanonical translations.

Y Chadani, E Uemura, K Yamazaki, M Kurihara… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Organisms possess a wide variety of proteins with a diverse repertoire of amino acid
sequences, and their synthesis relies on the ribosome. Empirical observations have led to …

Comparative genetic, biochemical, and biophysical analyses of the four E. coli ABCF paralogs support distinct functions related to mRNA translation

F Ousalem, S Singh, NA Bailey, KH Wong, L Zhu… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Multiple paralogous ABCF ATPases are encoded in most genomes, but the physiological
functions remain unknown for most of them. We herein compare the four Escherichia coli …

Global regulation via modulation of ribosome pausing by EttA

F Ousalem, S Ngo, T Oiffer, A Omairi-Nasser, M Hamon… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Having multiple rounds of translation of the same mRNA is a key feature of the Central
Dogma that creates substantial dynamic complexities along with opportunities for regulation …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of Cfr-mediated antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms for its evasion

EV Aleksandrova, KJY Wu, BIC Tresco, EA Syroegin… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The ribosome is an essential drug target as many classes of clinically important antibiotics
bind and inhibit its functional centers. The catalytic peptidyl transferase center (PTC) is …