Estudo do papel da proteína eIF5A na elongação da tradução em S. cerevisiae: análise da relação funcional com o trna de alanina e sua participação na síntese proteica geral da célula

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Watanabe, Tatiana Faria [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Proteinas - Sintese; Ribossomos; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Acido ribonucleico; Proteínas; Proteins
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/126558

eIF5A is highly conserved between archaea and eukaryotes and has a unique and essential postranslational modification, called hypusination. eIF5A was initially described as a translation initiation factor (eukaryotic Initiation Factor 5A) but it was shown that eIF5A engaged in translation elongation. Recently findings demonstrated that eIF5A is most important for specific translation of proteins containing consecutive proline residues. In order to deepen the knowledge of function of eIF5A during the translation process, this research studied the functional correlation between eIF5A and the alanine tRNA (tRNAAla), revealed as a genetic interaction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and also evaluated the effect of eIF5A in events of protein synthesis as Programmed Ribosomal frameshifting (PRF), misincorporation and readthrough using dual luciferase reporters. First, the allele specificity of the high copy suppression caused by tRNAAla and the ability of tRNAs for other amino acids to suppress the growth of eIF5A mutants were analyzed, and the results showed that this deletion does not occur in an allele specific manner and interestingly, among other tRNAs tested, only tRNAiMet is able to suppress the growth phenotype of the eIF5A mutant tif51AK56A. The suppression induced by these tRNAs does not reflect in improvement of the mutant defect in polysomal profile, for both cases. It was also tested direct physical interaction between eIF5A and tRNAAla using three-­‐hybrid system, however, no interaction was detected, suggesting that the interaction observed between eIF5A and tRNA in the 80S complex is dependent on the ribosome. The Programmed Ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) experiments showed an increase in PRF numbers for the signals of the virus LA and HIV-­‐1 in eIF5A mutant strains, demonstrating that eIF5A function interferes with mRNA recoding events. Furthermore, the same mutants showed an increase...