Structure and structural variations of the Escherichia coli 30 S ribosomal subunit as revealed by three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy.

A three-dimensional reconstruction of the 30 S subunit of the Escherichia coli ribosome was obtained at 23 A resolution. Because of the improved resolution, many more structural details are seen as compared to those obtained in earlier studies. Thus, the new structure is more suitable for comparison with the 30 S subunit part of the 70 S ribosome, whose structure is already known at a better resolution. In addition, we observe relative and, to some extent, independent movements of three main structural domains of the 30 S subunit, namely head, platform and the main body, which lead to partial blurring of the reconstructed volume. An attempt to subdivide the data set into conformationally defined subsets reveals the existence of conformers in which these domains have different orientations with respect to one another. This result suggests the existence of dynamic properties of the 30 S subunit that might be required for facilitating its interactions with mRNA, tRNA and other ligands during protein biosynthesis.

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