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Volume 270, Number 26, Issue of June 30, pp. 15908-15914, 1995
©1995 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Maturation of Pre-tRNA by Escherichia coli RNase P Is Specified by a Guanosine of the 5`-Flanking Sequence

Thierry Meinnel , Sylvain Blanquet

The C/A base pair at the top of the acceptor stem of Escherichia coli tRNA accounts for several of the specialized roles of this tRNA in translation initiation. According to the rules of RNA substrate recognition by RNase P, the C/A pair is likely to disfavor the 5`-maturation of pre-tRNA. Indeed, in contrast to other E. coli tRNA species, tRNA was not properly matured when overproduced from a multicopy expression vector. Half of the recovered tRNA retained an extension at the 5` side. Such a defect of tRNA processing could be cured by changing bases C and A by a Watson-Crick base pair or by non-paired bases, provided one of them was a G. It could also be compensated by either (i) overexpression of RNase P or (ii) introduction within the plasmid of one out of the three 5`-flanking sequences naturally occurring in the four E. coli tRNA genes. The effect of these flanking sequences on the maturation of tRNA could be accounted for by the presence of a G located 2 bases upstream from C. Notably, this G is the only residue that is conserved in the 5`-flanking sequences of all four E. coli tRNA genes.

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