0:02 Before we dive into the process, there
0:04 are two things that you should keep in
0:06 mind. The first is the structure of the
0:09 ukarotic ribosome which consists of two
0:13 subunits. The 60S and the 40S subunit.
0:16 The 60S is made up of proteins and three
0:19 major ribosomal RNAs. These are 28S,
0:23 5.8S, and the 5S ribosomal RNA. On the
0:26 other hand, the 40S subunit has the 18S
0:29 ribosomal RNA as its major component.
0:32 And this entire protein and RNA complex
0:35 in ukarots is known as the ATS ribosome.
0:38 And the processing of the mRNA and the
0:40 synthesis of the polyeptides occurs at
0:43 these so-called EP and A sites in these
0:45 ATS ribosomes. And we discussed these
0:48 sites earlier in the translation series.
0:51 So I will draw out the ribosome like
0:53 these dome-shaped structures. But always
0:55 keep in mind that over 60% of the
0:58 ribosome is made up of ribosomal RNAs.
1:00 The second important point is the
1:02 structure of the ukareotic mRNA. The
1:04 ukareotic mRNA begins with a fivep prime
1:07 utr which often times contains secondary
1:10 structures like hairpins and stem loops.
1:12 The fivep prime UTR typically also has a
1:14 ribosome binding site which in ukarots
1:17 is known as the coac sequence. This
1:19 fivep prime UTR is followed by the
1:21 coding sequence which starts at the
1:23 start codon and this coding frame
1:25 continues until a stop codon is
1:27 encountered and towards the end of the
1:29 coding sequence you have the threep
1:32 prime utr which is followed by a poly aa
1:35 tail. The fivep prime end of most all
1:37 ukarotic mrnas have a fivep prime
1:40 modification. You can learn all about
1:42 these modification in the transcription
1:43 videos. The links are down in the
1:45 description as well as on the cards
1:48 above. Now these modifications at the
1:50 threep prime and the fivep prime end
1:52 recruit some specific factors or
1:55 proteins that cause the mRNA to take a
1:57 loop structure such that the fivep prime
1:59 and the threep prime ends come close to
2:01 each other. We touched on this a little
2:02 bit when we were discussing the
2:05 transcription in ukarots and we'll see
2:06 later in this video how these
2:09 interactions are useful for the process
2:11 of translation initiation. The
2:13 initiation process can begin when the
2:16 two subunits, the 60S and the 40S are
2:19 not in the 80s ribosome form. This could
2:21 be either when ribosome is being
2:23 recycled from a termination step or when
2:26 a new subunit is being assembled. So the
2:28 point is that the 60S subunit usually
2:30 has to wait because the initiation of
2:33 translation begins with the 40S subunit.
2:35 And this is exactly what we saw in the
2:37 procariats where it started with the 30S
2:39 subunit. By the way, I will point out
2:41 some similarities and differences
2:43 between proaryot and ukarotic
2:45 translation initiation as we move along
2:47 in this video. So I hope you've watched
2:50 the previous videos. So the first factor
2:53 to associate with the 4DS small subunit
2:56 is the ukareotic initiation factor 1
2:58 which binds at the interface region
3:00 between the E and the P site and later
3:02 in the process one side of this
3:04 interface becomes the E site and the
3:08 other side becomes the P site. This Eiff
3:10 is similar to IF3 that we saw in the
3:13 proarotic translation. On the other end
3:16 of the 4DS subunit, the A site is
3:19 defined by the binding of Eiffa.
3:21 And this factor is very similar to the
3:24 initiation factor 1 in procaryots. The
3:26 middle ground between these two factors
3:29 is mostly the P site. Now all these
3:31 interactions that occur on the 40S
3:33 subunit are mediated by a larger
3:35 ukareotic initiation factor known as EIF-3.
3:37 EIF-3.
3:40 This protein is almost as big as the 40S
3:43 subunit itself. The C terminal end of
3:46 this EIF3 is pretty close to the A site
3:48 and the N terminal domain is located
3:50 pretty close to the E site. Now let's
3:52 talk about the functionality of these
3:56 factors. The EIF-1A primarily blocks the
3:59 tRNA binding to the A site and one
4:01 additional function that it serves which
4:03 we will see later is that it also helps
4:06 in the docking of the 60S subunit. The
4:08 EIF-1 on the other hand prevents the 60S
4:11 subunit from joining. And there's one
4:13 more function that EIF-1 serves which is
4:16 that it positions the mRNA at the 40S
4:18 subunit. And this large initiation
4:20 factor 3 as we said is a scaffold
4:22 protein which interacts with most all
4:25 initiation factors to regulate the
4:28 overall 4DS subunit interactions. The
4:31 one interaction regarding EIF-13 that I
4:33 would like you to note is that the
4:35 initiation factor 3 subunit J also
4:38 called EIF3J which is part of the C
4:40 terminal domain contacts the 4DS subunit
4:44 to define the mRNA entry channel. So
4:46 after these three initiation factors
4:49 assemble, the 4DS subunit is ready for
4:52 the next step. In this step, the
4:54 initiator tRNA which almost always
4:56 carries the methionine is bound by the
5:00 initiation factor 2. And this eif2 is
5:03 attached to a GTP. This charged
5:05 initiator tRNA is different from the
5:08 proarotic tRNA in that there is no form
5:11 modification done to the methionine. And
5:14 the function of EIF2 is similar to the
5:16 function of initiation factor 2 in
5:18 procaryots which also helps bind the
5:21 initiator tRNA and helps it to recruit
5:24 onto the 30th subunit. And for your
5:27 note, this anti-codon on this activated
5:30 tRNA must be UAC. If it is not obvious
5:32 why, it'll become clear in the next
5:35 step. So let's just quickly complete the
5:38 sketch of this 4DS complex where we have
5:41 the three initiation factors bound. Now
5:43 this initiator tRNA which contains the
5:45 methionine is brought to the pite with
5:49 the help of ukarotic initiation factor 2
5:53 and this eif2 interacts with both eif
5:55 and eif1a
5:57 and this helps in the positioning of the
6:00 initiator tRNA. Once ukareotic
6:02 initiation factor 2 has positioned,
6:06 another initiation factor called eif5
6:09 binds to eif-1 and eif2 to increase the
6:12 affinity of this complex. And on top of
6:15 this, the ukareotic initiation factor 5
6:19 also has a gtpas activating domain. So
6:21 this is the complex now where you have
6:24 EIF-1 at the E and P site transition the
6:27 initiator tRNA at the P site and the
6:31 EIF-1A at the A site. So this 40S
6:33 complex where all these initiation
6:34 factors are bound along with the
6:37 initiator tRNA. But there's no mRNA
6:40 bound yet is called the 43S
6:43 pre-initiation complex. And once this
6:46 43S pre-initiation complex is formed and
6:49 the interaction between IF2, EIF-1 and
6:53 EIF-1A is stabilized, the EIF-1 and
6:56 EIF-1A cause a structural change in the
6:59 40S subunit such that the mRNA entry
7:02 channel now opens up, which means that
7:04 this mRNA is ready to be bound onto the
7:07 43S complex.
7:10 But this mRNA has to undergo specific
7:13 steps before it can get recruited. And
7:15 these steps involve the interaction of
7:17 the fivep prime and threep prime end of
7:20 the mRNA. We quickly glossed over this
7:22 step earlier, but now let's get a bit
7:25 concrete and look at the details. The
7:28 ukareotic mRNA has a fivep prime cap
7:30 modification which is recognized by a
7:33 protein called ukareotic initiation
7:36 factor 4E. The mRNA on the other end has
7:38 a polya tail which is bound by
7:40 stabilizing proteins known as polya
7:44 binding protein C1. These polya binding
7:47 proteins recruit initiation factor 4g.
7:50 But eif4g not only has affinity for
7:52 polya binding proteins. It also has
7:55 affinity towards the eif4e which is
7:58 located at the fivep prime end. So in
8:00 principle no matter where it gets
8:02 recruited either at five prime end or
8:04 threep prime end the two ends later will
8:07 come together to form a loop regardless
8:09 but let's just say for the sake of
8:11 simplicity that it gets recruited at the
8:16 polyatail the e-4g then recruits eif4a
8:18 which happens to be a dead box hilicase
8:21 and now this mRNA after binding the
8:23 initiation factors at the fivep prime
8:25 end and the threep prime end can form a
8:27 loop such that the initiation ation
8:30 factor 4 E and 4G are brought together
8:32 due to the capping and the polyatail
8:35 modifications on the mRNA. The ukareotic
8:38 initiation factor 4 A which is the
8:40 helilicase by itself has very little
8:42 activation energy. So to help this
8:45 factor another protein is required which
8:48 is called initiation factor 4B and
8:52 simply put EIF4B enhances the EIF4A
8:54 helilicase activity. Now this complex of
8:57 initiation factors bound to the mRNA
8:59 become active and as a result the
9:02 helilicase EF4A moves forward by
9:06 consuming ATP as its energy source and
9:08 when it moves it unwinds the secondary
9:10 structure like hairpins and stem loops
9:13 in the five prime UTR and this unwinding
9:15 may be required to make the ribosome
9:18 binding site more accessible. So if we
9:19 sketch out the resulting structure, we
9:22 see that the hilicase has moved forward
9:24 and displaced the secondary structure.
9:26 So important thing to keep in mind here
9:28 is the role of hilicase in breaking the
9:31 five prime UTR hairpins. To make things
9:33 easier for remembering all this, note
9:35 that initiation factors that bind to the
9:40 mRNA are named 4E, 4G, 4 A, and 4B.
9:41 Essentially, this is saying that
9:44 initiation factors in class 4 are
9:46 involved in the mRNA binding. And after
9:48 binding, they help in the loading of the
9:51 mRNA onto the 43S pre-initiation
9:54 complex. Now that this mRNA is ready for
9:56 loading, let's see how this structure
9:59 would look after loading. I'm going to
10:02 draw out the 43S pre-initiation complex
10:04 first. And while I complete the sketch,
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10:14 free. All right. Now for loading of the
10:18 mRNA onto the ribosome, the EIF4 complex
10:20 on the mRNA is recruited near the A site
10:23 on the small subunit. So if you draw out
10:27 this complex EIF4 on the 4DS subunit,
10:29 you notice that EIF4A is closely
10:33 associated to the EIF-1 near the E site.
10:35 And the mRNA is threaded through this
10:38 complex into the mRNA entry channel and
10:40 looped out such that the threep prime
10:41 end and the fivep prime end are
10:43 physically in contact as we have seen
10:46 already. Note that we said the initiator
10:49 has the anti-codon UAC which means that
10:52 its complimentary sequence is the AUG
10:54 which is the start codon on the mRNA.
10:57 But the helilicase activity of EIF4A was
10:59 simply done to unwind the hairpin so
11:01 that it can bind the ribosome which
11:03 means the ribosome now has to find the
11:06 start codon and then position it to the
11:09 P site. So the 4DS subunit essentially
11:12 begins scanning the mRNA for a start
11:14 codon and this process is known as the
11:16 ribosome scanning which occurs in the
11:19 fivep prime to threep prime direction.
11:22 This 43S pre-initiation complex now
11:25 after binding the mRNA assumes an open
11:27 confirmation because the mRNA entry
11:29 channel is open because the ribosome now
11:32 has to scan the mRNA and this scanning
11:35 process to find the AUG consumes energy
11:38 in the form of ATP. The open complex of
11:41 43S transitions to the next stage when
11:44 it finds this AUG.
11:47 And let's just draw out the next stage.
11:49 This will take me a quick minute.
11:51 Let's just tweak this here and some
11:54 lines and add some colors
11:56 and we're all done. So the change to
11:59 notice here is that the AUG is now
12:01 paired at the P site with the initiator
12:06 tRNA. The EIF4A and 4B remain bound near
12:10 the E site and the EIF 4G and 4E move
12:11 out of this complex but are still
12:14 associated together which allows the
12:17 mRNA to be in a loop. Now there could be
12:19 many AUGs right? So how do you know
12:22 which AUG should be positioned at the P
12:24 site? It turns out that this positioning
12:26 happens in the context of a sequence
12:29 which usually is this G and C-rich
12:31 sequence especially in the consensus of
12:35 GCC RCC Aug and this sequence interacts
12:39 with EIF1 factor and remember that we
12:40 said that it helps in the positioning of
12:43 the mRNA and that's where it comes into
12:46 play and this sequence here is the KAC
12:49 sequence and now there's a small catch
12:52 in this recognition of mRNA note that
12:55 40S S subunit contains the 18S ribosomal
12:58 RNA but instead of ribosomal RNA it is
13:00 the initiation factor which helps in the
13:03 recognition of the KAC sequence. This is
13:05 very different from procariats where we
13:08 saw that the 16S ribosomal RNA was
13:10 involved in the mRNA binding as well as
13:13 the positioning of the start codon at
13:15 the P site. Here in ukareiots the mRNA
13:17 binding and positioning is initiated by
13:21 initiation factors. So the 18S ribosomal
13:23 RNA here is primarily involved in the
13:25 structural configuration of the 40S
13:28 subunit. I hope this is clear. All
13:31 right, let's move on. So when this
13:33 pairing between the mRNA and the tRNA is
13:36 established at the P site, the 40S
13:38 subunit undergoes a confirmational
13:41 change at the mRNA entry channel and it
13:43 goes into a compact state and we call
13:46 this state a closed state. So this
13:49 entire complex moves to a 43S closed complex.
13:51 complex.
13:53 This complex is also called 48S
13:56 initiation complex. Once this complex is
13:59 established, the ukarotic initiation
14:03 factor 5 causes the GTP in the EIF2 to
14:05 break a phosphate bond which then as a
14:08 result causes the EIF2 to form a complex
14:11 with the GDP. And this complex loses its
14:14 affinity towards the ribosome subunit
14:16 and as a result it is released. The
14:20 EIF-1 and EIF2 interact closely. So
14:22 actually both of them get released and
14:25 now this causes the Eiff scaffold
14:28 protein to release as well. And once the
14:30 scaffold protein is out nothing really
14:33 stays on the ribosome. So all initiation
14:36 factors except for EIF1A which is at the
14:39 A site are released. And if we draw out
14:42 the resulting picture of the 40S
14:44 subunit, you will find that ukareotic
14:47 initiation factor 1A is the only one
14:49 which is present which is at the A site
14:51 and the initiator tRNA with its
14:53 methionine is attached at the P site and
14:57 the mRNA is still looped as the EIF4E
14:59 and 4G are still interacting
15:01 independently of the ribosome subunit.
15:04 So to make this explicit, the A site is
15:06 blocked by ukareotic initiation factor
15:10 1A. The P site is blocked by the tRNA
15:12 and the E site is empty. Remember that
15:15 we said that the EIF-1 prevents the 60S
15:18 subunit from joining. Well, now we don't
15:20 have the EIF-1 present anymore. So, the
15:23 60S subunit can happily bind to the 40S
15:26 subunit. But there's a small catch. The
15:29 60S subunit needs help. It cannot just
15:32 bind by itself. So another initiation
15:34 factor EIF5B
15:37 which is in complex with the GTP binds
15:40 to 60S and delivers it to the 40S
15:44 subunit. Specifically the EIF5B
15:47 interacts with EIF-1A and correctly
15:50 positions the 60S subunit. And when both
15:52 of these subunits are correctly
15:56 positioned, the GTP in the EIF5B is
15:59 reduced to a GDP. And this causes this
16:01 5B factor to lose affinity and it gets
16:03 kicked out. But when it is being
16:06 released, it takes the initiation factor
16:09 1A with itself. And now finally we are
16:12 left with 40S and 60S subunits that are
16:14 still attached together with the
16:16 initiator tRNA paired at the start codon
16:19 at the P site. And the mRNA is looped
16:21 because of this interaction between EIF
16:25 4E and 4G. The E site and the A site are
16:28 both empty. And this complex is called
16:30 the ads initiation complex which is
16:33 ready for the next stage that is the
16:35 elongation. And this wraps up our