Replenishment of selenium deficient rats with selenium results in redistribution of the selenocysteine tRNA population in a tissue specific manner
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Replenishment of selenium deficient rats with selenium results in redistribution of the selenocysteine tRNA population in a tissue specific manner
Abstract
We reported previously that the selenium status of rats influences both the steady-state levels and distributions of two selenocysteine tRNA isoacceptors and that these isoacceptors differ by a single methyl group attached to the ribosyl moiety at position 34. In this study, we demonstrate that repletion of selenium-deficient rats results in a gradual, tissue-dependent shift in the distribution of these isoacceptors. Rats fed a selenium-deficient diet possess a greater abundance of the species unmethylated on the ribosyl moiety at position 34 compared to the form methylated at this position. A redistribution of the Sec-tRNA isoacceptors occurred in tissues of selenium-supplemented rats whereby the unmethylated form gradually shifted toward the methylated form. This was true in each of four tissues examined, muscle, kidney, liver and heart, although the rate of redistribution was tissue-specific. Muscle manifested a predominance of two minor serine isoacceptors under conditions of extreme selenium-deficiency which also appeared to respond to selenium. Ribosomal binding studies revealed that one of the two additional isoacceptors decodes the serine codeword, AGU, and the second decodes the serine codeword, UCU. Interestingly, muscle and heart were the slower tissues to return to a 'selenium adequate' tRNA distribution pattern.
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