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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
15
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-6
pubmed:abstractText
Recently, it has been found that ribosome pausing at stop codons caused by certain nascent peptides induces cleavage of mRNA in Escherichia coli cells (1, 2). The question we addressed in the present study is whether mRNA cleavage occurs when translation elongation is prevented. We focused on a specific peptide sequence (AS17), derived from SecM, that is known to cause elongation arrest. When the crp-crr fusion gene encoding CRP-AS17-IIA(Glc) was expressed, cAMP receptor protein (CRP) proteins truncated around the arrest sequence were efficiently produced, and they were tagged by the transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA) system. Northern blot analysis revealed that both truncated upstream crp and downstream crr mRNAs were generated along with reduced amounts of the full-length crp-crr mRNA. The truncated crp mRNA dramatically decreased in the presence of tmRNA due to rapid degradation. The 3' ends of truncated crp mRNA correspond well to the C termini of the truncated CRP proteins. We conclude that ribosome stalling by the arrest sequence induces mRNA cleavage near the arrest point, resulting in nonstop mRNAs that are recognized by tmRNA. We propose that the mRNA cleavage induced by ribosome stalling acts in concert with the tmRNA system as a way to ensure quality control of protein synthesis and possibly to regulate the expression of certain genes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
279
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
15368-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Adenosine Triphosphatases, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Codon, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Codon, Terminator, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Cyclic AMP, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Mass Spectrometry, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14744860-Ribosomes
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Ribosome stalling during translation elongation induces cleavage of mRNA being translated in Escherichia coli.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't