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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
26
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-6-7
pubmed:abstractText
When in Escherichia coli the host RNA polymerase is replaced by the 8-fold faster bacteriophage T7 enzyme for transcription of the lacZ gene, the beta-galactosidase yield per transcript drops as a result of transcript destabilization. We have measured the beta-galactosidase yield per transcript from T7 RNA polymerase mutants that exhibit a reduced elongation speed in vitro. Aside from very slow mutants that were not sufficiently processive to transcribe the lacZ gene, the lower the polymerase speed, the higher the beta-galactosidase yield per transcript. In particular, a mutant which was 2.7-fold slower than the wild-type enzyme yielded 3.4- to 4.6-fold more beta-galactosidase per transcript. These differences in yield vanished in the presence of the rne-50 mutation and therefore reflect the unequal sensitivity of the transcripts to RNase E. We propose that the instability of the T7 RNA polymerase transcripts stems from the unmasking of an RNase E-sensitive site(s) between the polymerase and the leading ribosome: the faster the polymerase, the longer the lag between the synthesis of this site(s) and its shielding by ribosomes, and the lower the transcript stability.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
92
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
12250-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Transcribing of Escherichia coli genes with mutant T7 RNA polymerases: stability of lacZ mRNA inversely correlates with polymerase speed.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, URA 1302, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study