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Volume 271, Number 22, Issue of May 31, 1996 pp. 13162-13168
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Identification of Protein Synthesis Elongation Factor G as a 4.5 S RNA-binding Protein in Escherichia coli

(Received for publication, October 25, 1995, and in revised form, February 6, 1996)

From the Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305, Japan

Escherichia coli 4.5 S RNA is metabolically stable and abundant. It consists of 114 nucleotides, and it is structurally homologous to domain IV of mammalian signal recognition particle (SRP) RNA. In this study, we found two 4.5 S RNA-binding proteins in cell extracts by means of a gel mobility shift assay. One protein was identified as Ffh, which has been characterized as 4.5 S RNA-binding protein. The other protein was separated from Ffh by two consecutive column chromatographic elutions and by monitoring the 4.5 S RNA binding activity. After the second chromatography, a dominant protein with an approximate molecular weight of 78,000 was associated with 4.5 S RNA binding activity. A sequence of the NH₂-terminal 19 residues of the 78-kDa protein was completely identical to that of the protein elongation factor G (EF-G) of E. coli, and further it cross-reacted with antiserum against E. coli EF-G. The results obtained using a synthetic oligo RNA corresponding to the 23 S rRNA defining the EF-G binding site indicated that 4.5 S RNA and 23 S rRNA are competitive in 4.5 S RNA binding and that a decanucleotide sequence conserved between them serves as a binding site for EF-G. Conservation of the SRP RNA binding activity of EF-G from Bacillus subtilis suggests that the binding of EF-G to SRP RNA is essential for its function.

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