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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-1-17
pubmed:abstractText
The guanylyltransferase activity of mRNA capping enzyme catalyzes the transfer of GMP from GTP to the 5' terminus of mRNA. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the activity is carried on the alpha subunit of capping enzyme, the product of the CEG1 gene. We have isolated 10 recessive, temperature-sensitive mutations of CEG1; nine (ceg1-1 to ceg1-9) were isolated on a single-copy plasmid and the remaining one (ceg1-10) on a multicopy plasmid. The presence of ceg1-10 in multiple copies is essential for the viability of cells carrying the mutation, and a shift to the restrictive temperature resulted in rapid growth arrest of ceg1-10 cells, while growth rates of other mutants decreased gradually upon temperature upshift. Intragenic complementation was not observed for pairwise combinations of the mutations. Although the majority of the mutations occurred at the amino acid residues conserved between Ceg1 and the Schizosaccharomyces pombe homologue, none were located in the regions that are also conserved among viral capping enzymes and polynucleotide ligases. Guanylyltransferase activity of the mutant proteins as measured by covalent Ceg1-GMP complex formation was heat-labile. The availability of these mutants should facilitate studies of the structure-function relationships of capping enzyme, as well as the roles and regulation of mRNA capping.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0026-8925
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
249
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
147-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Chromosomes, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Genes, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Genes, Recessive, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Nucleotidyltransferases, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Schizosaccharomyces, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:7500935-Temperature
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolation of temperature-sensitive mutants for mRNA capping enzyme in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't