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Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2008, p. 3151-3161, Vol. 28, No. 10
0270-7306/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01674-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Bud23 Methylates G1575 of 18S rRNA and Is Required for Efficient Nuclear Export of Pre-40S Subunits{triangledown}

Joshua White,1,{dagger} Zhihua Li,2,{dagger} Richa Sardana,1,{dagger} Janusz M. Bujnicki,3,4 Edward M. Marcotte,2 and Arlen W. Johnson1*

Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology,1 Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712,2 Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, PL-61-614 Poznan, Poland,3 Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Trojdena 4, PL-02-109 Warsaw, Poland4

Received 11 September 2007/ Returned for modification 23 October 2007/ Accepted 27 February 2008

BUD23 was identified from a bioinformatics analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes involved in ribosome biogenesis. Deletion of BUD23 leads to severely impaired growth, reduced levels of the small (40S) ribosomal subunit, and a block in processing 20S rRNA to 18S rRNA, a late step in 40S maturation. Bud23 belongs to the S-adenosylmethionine-dependent Rossmann-fold methyltransferase superfamily and is related to small-molecule methyltransferases. Nevertheless, we considered that Bud23 methylates rRNA. Methylation of G1575 is the only mapped modification for which the methylase has not been assigned. Here, we show that this modification is lost in bud23 mutants. The nuclear accumulation of the small-subunit reporters Rps2-green fluorescent protein (GFP) and Rps3-GFP, as well as the rRNA processing intermediate, the 5' internal transcribed spacer 1, indicate that bud23 mutants are defective for small-subunit export. Mutations in Bud23 that inactivated its methyltransferase activity complemented a bud23{Delta} mutant. In addition, mutant ribosomes in which G1575 was changed to adenosine supported growth comparable to that of cells with wild-type ribosomes. Thus, Bud23 protein, but not its methyltransferase activity, is important for biogenesis and export of the 40S subunit in yeast.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, 1 University Station, A5000, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0162. Phone: (512) 475-6350. Fax: (512) 471-7088. E-mail: arlen{at}mail.utexas.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 10 March 2008.

{dagger} These authors contributed equally to this work.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2008, p. 3151-3161, Vol. 28, No. 10
0270-7306/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01674-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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