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Transfer RNA (abbreviated
tRNA), first hypothesized by
Francis Crick, is a small
RNA chain (73-93 nucleotides) that transfers a specific
amino acid to a growing polypeptide chain at the ribosomal site of protein synthesis during
translation (biology). It has a 3' terminal site for amino acid attachment. This covalent linkage is catalyzed by an aminoacyl tRNA synthetase. It also contains a three
nucleotide region called the anticodon that can base pair to the corresponding three base
codon region on
mRNA. Each type of tRNA molecule can be attached to only one type of amino acid, but because the
genetic code contains multiple codons that specify the same amino acid, tRNA molecules bearing different anticodons may also carry the same amino acid.
Structure
tRNA has
primary structure, secondary structure (usually visualized as the
cloverleaf structure), and tertiary structure (all tRNAs have a similar L-shaped 3D structure that allows them to fit into the translation (biology) of the
ribosome).
The 5' end phosphate group.
The acceptor stem is a 7-bp stem made by the base pairing of the 5'-terminal nucleotide with the 3'-terminal nucleotide (which contains the CCA 3'-terminal group used to attach the amino acid). The acceptor stem may contain non-Watson-Crick base pairs.
The CCA tail is a CCA sequence at the 3' end of the tRNA molecule. This sequence is important for the recognition of tRNA by enzymes critical in translation. In prokaryotes, the CCA sequence is transcribed. In eukaryotes, the CCA sequence is added during processing and therefore does not appear in the tRNA gene.
The D arm is a 4 bp stem ending in a loop that often contains dihydrouridine.
The anticodon arm is a 5-bp stem whose loop contains the Transfer RNA#Anticodon.
The T arm is a 5 bp stem containing the sequence TΨC where Ψ is a pseudouridine.
Bases that have been modified, especially by methylation, occur in several positions outside the anticodon. The first anticodon base is sometimes modified to inosine (derived from adenine) or pseudouridine (derived from uracil).
Anticodon
An
anticodon is a unit made up of three
nucleotides that correspond to the three bases of the codon on the mRNA. Each tRNA contains a specific anticodon triplet sequence that can base-pair to one or more codons for an amino acid. For example, one codon for
lysine is AAA; the anticodon of a lysine tRNA might be UUU. Some anticodons can pair with more than one codon due to a phenomenon known as
wobble base pairing. Frequently, the first nucleotide of the anticodon is one of two not found on mRNA: inosine and
pseudouridine, which can hydrogen bond to more than one base in the corresponding codon position. In the genetic code, it is common for a single amino acid to occupy all four third-position possibilities; for example, the amino acid glycine is coded for by the codon sequences GGU, GGC, GGA, and GGG.
To provide a one-to-one correspondence between tRNA molecules and codons that specify amino acids, 61 tRNA molecules would be required per cell. However, many cells contain fewer than 61 types of tRNAs because the wobble base is capable of binding to several, though not necessarily all, of the codons that specify a particular amino acidLodish H, Berk A, Matsudaira P, Kaiser CA, Krieger M, Scott MP, Zipursky SL, Darnell J. (2004). Molecular Biology of the Cell. WH Freeman: New York, NY. 5th ed..
Aminoacylation
Aminoacylation is the process of adding an aminoacyl group to a compound. It produces tRNA molecules with their CCA 3' ends covalently linked to an amino acid.
Each tRNA is aminoacylation (or
charged) with a specific amino acid by an
aminoacyl tRNA synthetase. There is normally a single aminoacyl tRNA synthetase for each amino acid, despite the fact that there can be more than one tRNA, and more than one anticodon, for an amino acid. Recognition of the appropriate tRNA by the synthetases is not mediated solely by the anticodon, and the acceptor stem often plays a prominent role.
Reaction:
amino acid + ATP → aminoacyl-AMP + PPi
aminoacyl-AMP + tRNA → aminoacyl-tRNA + AMP
tRNA genes
Organisms vary in the number of tRNA genes in their
genome. The nematode worm
Caenorhabditis elegans, a commonly used model organism in
genetics studies, has 19,000 genes in its
cell nucleus genome, of which 659 code for tRNAHartwell LH, Hood L, Goldberg ML, Reynolds AE, Silver LM, Veres RC. (2004).
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill: New York, NY. p 264.. The budding yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has 275 tRNA genes in its genome. In the human genome, which according to current estimates has about 25,000 genes in total, there are about 2000 non-coding RNA genes, which include tRNA genes. There are 22
mitochondrial tRNA genes
Ibid. p 529.; 497 nuclear genes encoding cytoplasmic tRNA molecules and there are 324 tRNA-derived putative pseudogenes.
Cytoplasmic tRNA genes can be grouped into 49 families according to their anticodon features. These genes are found on all chromosomes, except 22 and Y chromosome. High clustering on 6p is observed (140 tRNA genes), as well on 1 chromosome.
tRNA molecules are transcribed (in
eukaryotic cells) by RNA polymerase III, unlike
messenger RNA which is transcribed by RNA polymerase II.
History
Significant research on structure was conducted in the early 1960s by Alex Rich and
Don Caspar, two researchers in Boston, the Jacques Fresco group in
Princeton University and a United Kingdom group at
King's College London. A later publication reported the primary structure in 1965 by
Robert W. Holley. The secondary and tertiary structures were derived from
X-ray crystallography studies reported independently in 1974 by American and British research groups headed, respectively, by Alexander Rich and Aaron Klug.
References
See also
External links
- tRNA could be the cause of heart attack
- Sprinzl tRNA compilation
- Collection of tRNAs identified from complete genomes
- Molecule of the Month © RCSB Protein Data Bank:
- Transfer RNA
- Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases
- Elongation Factors
Transfer RNA (abbreviated
tRNA), first hypothesized by
Francis Crick, is a small
RNA chain (73-93 nucleotides) that transfers a specific
amino acid to a growing polypeptide chain at the ribosomal site of protein synthesis during
translation (biology). It has a 3' terminal site for amino acid attachment. This covalent linkage is catalyzed by an aminoacyl tRNA synthetase. It also contains a three
nucleotide region called the anticodon that can base pair to the corresponding three base codon region on
mRNA. Each type of tRNA molecule can be attached to only one type of amino acid, but because the
genetic code contains multiple codons that specify the same amino acid, tRNA molecules bearing different anticodons may also carry the same amino acid.
Structure
tRNA has primary structure, secondary structure (usually visualized as the
cloverleaf structure), and tertiary structure (all tRNAs have a similar L-shaped 3D structure that allows them to fit into the
translation (biology) of the ribosome).
The 5' end phosphate group.
The acceptor stem is a 7-bp stem made by the base pairing of the 5'-terminal nucleotide with the 3'-terminal nucleotide (which contains the CCA 3'-terminal group used to attach the amino acid). The acceptor stem may contain non-Watson-Crick base pairs.
The CCA tail is a CCA sequence at the 3' end of the tRNA molecule. This sequence is important for the recognition of tRNA by enzymes critical in translation. In prokaryotes, the CCA sequence is transcribed. In eukaryotes, the CCA sequence is added during processing and therefore does not appear in the tRNA gene.
The D arm is a 4 bp stem ending in a loop that often contains dihydrouridine.
The anticodon arm is a 5-bp stem whose loop contains the Transfer RNA#Anticodon.
The T arm is a 5 bp stem containing the sequence TΨC where Ψ is a pseudouridine.
Bases that have been modified, especially by methylation, occur in several positions outside the anticodon. The first anticodon base is sometimes modified to inosine (derived from adenine) or pseudouridine (derived from uracil).
Anticodon
An
anticodon is a unit made up of three nucleotides that correspond to the three bases of the codon on the mRNA. Each tRNA contains a specific anticodon triplet sequence that can base-pair to one or more codons for an amino acid. For example, one codon for
lysine is AAA; the anticodon of a lysine tRNA might be UUU. Some anticodons can pair with more than one codon due to a phenomenon known as
wobble base pairing. Frequently, the first nucleotide of the anticodon is one of two not found on mRNA: inosine and pseudouridine, which can hydrogen bond to more than one base in the corresponding codon position. In the
genetic code, it is common for a single amino acid to occupy all four third-position possibilities; for example, the amino acid glycine is coded for by the codon sequences GGU, GGC, GGA, and GGG.
To provide a one-to-one correspondence between tRNA molecules and codons that specify amino acids, 61 tRNA molecules would be required per cell. However, many cells contain fewer than 61 types of tRNAs because the wobble base is capable of binding to several, though not necessarily all, of the codons that specify a particular amino acidLodish H, Berk A, Matsudaira P, Kaiser CA, Krieger M, Scott MP, Zipursky SL, Darnell J. (2004). Molecular Biology of the Cell. WH Freeman: New York, NY. 5th ed..
Aminoacylation
Aminoacylation is the process of adding an aminoacyl group to a compound. It produces tRNA molecules with their CCA 3' ends covalently linked to an
amino acid.
Each tRNA is aminoacylation (or
charged) with a specific amino acid by an aminoacyl tRNA synthetase. There is normally a single aminoacyl tRNA synthetase for each amino acid, despite the fact that there can be more than one tRNA, and more than one anticodon, for an amino acid. Recognition of the appropriate tRNA by the synthetases is not mediated solely by the anticodon, and the acceptor stem often plays a prominent role.
Reaction:
amino acid + ATP → aminoacyl-AMP + PPi
aminoacyl-AMP + tRNA → aminoacyl-tRNA + AMP
tRNA genes
Organisms vary in the number of tRNA genes in their
genome. The
nematode worm
Caenorhabditis elegans, a commonly used model organism in
genetics studies, has 19,000 genes in its cell nucleus genome, of which 659 code for tRNAHartwell LH, Hood L, Goldberg ML, Reynolds AE, Silver LM, Veres RC. (2004).
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill: New York, NY. p 264.. The budding yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has 275 tRNA genes in its genome. In the human genome, which according to current estimates has about 25,000 genes in total, there are about 2000 non-coding RNA genes, which include tRNA genes. There are 22
mitochondrial tRNA genes
Ibid. p 529.; 497 nuclear genes encoding cytoplasmic tRNA molecules and there are 324 tRNA-derived putative pseudogenes.
Cytoplasmic tRNA genes can be grouped into 49 families according to their anticodon features. These genes are found on all
chromosomes, except 22 and Y chromosome. High clustering on 6p is observed (140 tRNA genes), as well on 1 chromosome.
tRNA molecules are transcribed (in eukaryotic cells) by RNA polymerase III, unlike messenger RNA which is transcribed by
RNA polymerase II.
History
Significant research on structure was conducted in the early 1960s by
Alex Rich and Don Caspar, two researchers in Boston, the
Jacques Fresco group in Princeton University and a
United Kingdom group at King's College London. A later publication reported the primary structure in 1965 by
Robert W. Holley. The secondary and tertiary structures were derived from
X-ray crystallography studies reported independently in 1974 by American and British research groups headed, respectively, by Alexander Rich and Aaron Klug.
References
See also
External links
- tRNA could be the cause of heart attack
- Sprinzl tRNA compilation
- Collection of tRNAs identified from complete genomes
- Molecule of the Month © RCSB Protein Data Bank:
- Transfer RNA
- Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases
- Elongation Factors
Transfer RNA
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Transcription
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RNA: see nucleic acid nucleic acid, any of a group of organic substances found in the chromosomes of living cells and viruses that play a central role in the storage and ...
