Control of rRNA and tRNA syntheses in Escherichia coli by guanosine tetraphosphate.
AUTOR(ES)
Ryals, J
RESUMO
The expression of stable RNA (rRNA and tRNA) genes and the concentration of guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) were measured in an isogenic pair of relA+ and relA derivatives of Escherichia coli B/r. The cells were either growing exponentially at different rates or subject to amino acid starvation when they were measured. The specific stable RNA gene activity (rs/rt, the rate of rRNA and tRNA synthesis relative to the total instantaneous rate of RNA synthesis) was found to decrease from 1.0 at a ppGpp concentration of 0 (extrapolated value) to 0.24 at saturating concentrations of ppGpp (above 100 pmoles per optical density at 460 nm unit of cell mass). The same relationship between the rs/rt ratio and ppGpp concentration was obtained independent of the physiological state of the bacteria (i.e., independent of the growth rate or of amino acid starvation) and independent of the relA allele. It can be concluded that ppGpp is an effector for stable RNA gene control and that stable RNA genes are not controlled by factors other than the ppGpp-mediated system. The results were shown to be qualitatively and quantitatively consistent with data on in vitro rRNA gene control by ppGpp, and they were interpreted in the light of reported ideas derived from those in vitro experiments.
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