Effect of ermC leader region mutations on induced mRNA stability.
AUTOR(ES)
Hue, K K
RESUMO
Induction of translation of the ermC gene product in Bacillus subtilis occurs upon exposure to erythromycin and is a result of ribosome stalling in the ermC leader peptide coding sequence. Another result of ribosome stalling is stabilization of ermC mRNA. The effect of leader RNA secondary structure, methylase translation, and leader peptide translation on induced ermC mRNA stability was examined by constructing various mutations in the ermC leader region. Analysis of deletion mutations showed that ribosome stalling causes induction of ermC mRNA stability in the absence of methylase translation and ermC leader RNA secondary structure. Furthermore, deletions that removed much of the leader peptide coding sequence had no effect on induced ermC mRNA stability. A leader region mutation was constructed such that ribosome stalling occurred in a position upstream of the natural stall site, resulting in induced mRNA stability without induction of translation. This mutation was used to measure the effect of mRNA stabilization on ermC gene expression.
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