A conserved family of Saccharomyces cerevisiae synthases effects dihydrouridine modification of tRNA
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in RNA
- Vol. 8 (3), 370-381
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355838202029825
Abstract
Dihydrouridine modification of tRNA is widely observed in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, as well as in some archaea. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae every sequenced tRNA has at least one such modification, and all but one have two or more. We have used a biochemical genomics approach to identify the gene encoding dihydrouridine synthase 1 (Dus1, ORF YML080w), using yeast pre-tRNAPhe as a substrate. Dus1 is a member of a widespread family of conserved proteins, three other members of which are found in yeast: YNR015w, YLR405w, and YLR401c. We show that one of these proteins, Dus2, encoded by ORF YNR015w, has activity with two other substrates: yeast pre-tRNATyr and pre-tRNALeu. Both Dus1 and Dus2 are active as a single subunit protein expressed and purified from Escherichia coli, and the activity of both is stimulated in the presence of flavin adenine dinucleotide. Dus1 modifies yeast pre-tRNAPhe in vitro at U17, one of the two positions that are known to bear this modification in vivo. Yeast extract from a dus1-Δ strain is completely defective in modification of yeast pre-tRNAPhe, and RNA isolated from dus1-Δ and dus2-Δ strains is significantly depleted in dihydrouridine content.Keywords
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