Missense and nonsense suppressors can correct frameshift mutations

Biochimie
S D TuckerF T Pagel

Abstract

Missense and nonsense suppressor tRNAs, selected for their ability to read a new triplet codon, were observed to suppress one or more frameshift mutations in trpA of Escherichia coli. Two of the suppressible frameshift mutants, trpA8 and trpA46AspPR3, were cloned, sequenced, and found to be of the +1 type, resulting from the insertion of four nucleotides and one nucleotide, respectively. Twenty-two suppressor tRNAs were examined, 20 derived from one of the 3 glycine isoacceptor species, one from lysT, and one from trpT. The sequences of all but four of the mutant tRNAs are known, and two of those four were converted to suppressor tRNAs that were subsequently sequenced. Consideration of the coding specificities and anticodon sequences of the suppressor tRNAs does not suggest a unitary mechanism of frameshift suppression. Rather, the results indicate that different suppressors may shift frame according to different mechanisms. Examination of the suppression windows of the suppressible frameshift mutations indicates that some of the suppressors may work at cognate codons, either in the 0 frame or in the +1 frame, and others may act at noncognate codons (in either frame) by some as-yet-unspecified mechanism. Whatever the mechanisms...Continue Reading

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