Mutational alterations of translational coupling in the L11 ribosomal protein operon of Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Sor, F
RESUMO
The L11 operon in Escherichia coli consists of the genes coding for ribosomal proteins L11 and L1. It is known that translation of L1 does not take place unless the preceding L11 cistron is translated, that is, the two cistrons are translationally coupled, and this is the basis of coregulation of the translation of the two cistrons by a single repressor, L1. Several mutational analyses were carried out to define the region responsible for coupling L1 translation with L11 translation. First, by introducing several amber mutations into the L11 gene by a site-directed mutagenesis technique, it was shown that translation by ribosomes down to a position 21 nucleotides upstream, but not to a position 45 nucleotides upstream, from the end of the L11 cistron allowed the initiation of L11 translation. Second, deletion analysis indicated that a region located 23 to 20 nucleotides from the end of the L11 gene was involved in preventing independent initiation from L1 translation. Third, five different mutations obtained by screening for activation of the masked L1 initiation site were found to be clustered in a small region immediately upstream from the Shine-Dalgarno sequence of L1, and all of them were G-to-A transitions. These results, together with some additional experiments with oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis, defined the region involved in the coupling and suggest that some special feature of this region, probably different from simple masking of the initiation site by base pairing, is responsible for translational coupling. The present results also suggest that there might be specific differences in the primary nucleotide sequence that distinguish independent translational initiation sites from translationally coupled (i.e., masked) initiation sites.
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