Participation of acetylpseudouridine in the synthesis of a peptide bond in vitro.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
D D WoodM A Moscarello

Abstract

Uracil, uridine, and pseudouridine were acetylated by refluxing in acetic anhydride, and the products of acetylation were incubated with a synthetic peptide (1-21) that corresponds to the N-terminal 21 amino acid residues of human myelin basic protein. Peptide bond formation, at the N alpha terminus in peptide 1-21, was obtained with acetyluracil and acetylpseudouridine, but not with acetyluridine. Transfer of an acetyl group from acetyluracil and acetylpseudouridine depended on acetylation in the N-heterocycle. X-ray crystallographic analysis definitively established N-1 as the site of acetylation in acetyluracil. Mass spectrometry of the acetylation products showed that one acetyl group was transferred to peptide 1-21, in water, by either acetyluracil or acetylpseudouridine at pH approximately 6. Release of the acetyl group by acylaminopeptidase regenerated peptide 1-21 (mass spectrometry) and automated sequencing (for five cycles) of the regenerated (deacetylated) peptide demonstrated that the N terminus was intact. The findings are discussed in the context of a possible role for pseudouridine in ribosome-catalyzed peptidyltransfer, with particular reference being made to similarities between the possible mechanism of acyl t...Continue Reading

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