We have investigated the mechanism and sequence context rules governing ribosome frameshifting promoted by aminoacyl-tRNA limitation. In the case of one shifty sequence, frameshifting promoted by lysyl-tRNA limitation occurs at the sequence AAG C and is due to rightward movement of the ribosome so as to read the AGC triplet overlapping the hungry codon from the right. The frequency of this event is unaffected by sequence elements more than three bases to the left (upstream) or two bases to the right (downstream) of the hungry codon, and only slightly affected by the identity of the base two bases to the right. It is strongly affected by the base immediately to the right of the hungry codon, which becomes the wobble base of the shifted triplet; and by the third base of the hungry codon, even though the two synonyms (AAG and AAA) call for the same aminoacyl-tRNA; and by the identity of the base immediately to the left of the hungry codon. The latter result suggests that the aminoacyl-tRNA in the P site affects the maintenance of reading frame at the adjacent A site of the ribosome. However, the DNA sequence makes it seem unlikely that the P-site tRNA shifts to the right in concert with the A-site tRNA, a mechanism that can account for leftward frameshifting (in the opposite direction) in retroviral translation. The specificity of sequence determinants of leftwing versus rightwing frameshifting is discussed.
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