Isoacceptor specific characterization of tRNA aminoacylation and misacylation in vivo

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• 作者：Kyle Mohler^a ; ^c ; Rebecca Mann^b ; Michael Ibba^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ^{ibba.1@osu.edu}
• 关键词：tRNA ; Aminoacylation ; Misacylation ; Isoacceptor
• 刊名：Methods
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：113
• 期：Complete
• 页码：127-131
• 全文大小：877 K
• 卷排序：113

文摘

Amino acid misincorporation during protein synthesis occurs due to misacylation of tRNAs or defects in decoding at the ribosome. While misincorporation of amino acids has been observed in a variety of contexts, less work has been done to directly assess the extent to which specific tRNAs are misacylated in vivo, and the identity of the misacylated amino acid moiety. Here we describe tRNA isoacceptor specific aminoacylation profiling (ISAP), a method to identify and quantify the amino acids attached to a tRNA species in vivo. ISAP allows compilation of aminoacylation profiles for specific isoacceptors tRNAs. To demonstrate the efficacy and broad applicability of ISAP, tRNAPhe and tRNATyr species were isolated from total aminoacyl-tRNA extracted from both yeast and Escherichia coli. Isolated aminoacyl-tRNAs were washed until free of detectable unbound amino acid and subsequently deacylated. Free amino acids from the deacylated fraction were then identified and quantified by mass spectrometry. Using ISAP allowed quantification of the effects of quality control on the accumulation of misacylated tRNA species under different growth conditions.