Rifampicin Inhibition of Ribonucleic Acid and Protein Synthesis in Normal and Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid-Treated Escherichia coli
AUTOR(ES)
Reid, Parlane
RESUMO
The kinetics of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein synthesis in rifampicin-inhibited normal and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)-treated Escherichia coli was measured. Approximately 200-fold higher external concentrations of rifampicin were needed to produce a level of inhibition in normal cells comparable to that observed in EDTA-treated cells. The rates of RNA and protein synthesis in both kinds of cells decreased exponentially, after an initial lag phase, at all rifampicin concentrations tested. The lag phase was longer and the final exponential slope less for protein synthesis than for RNA synthesis at a given rifampicin concentration. Below certain rifampicin concentrations, both the lag phase and the subsequent exponential decrease in the rates of RNA and protein synthesis were found to be rifampicin concentration dependent. At greater concentrations only the time of the lag phase was decreased by higher rifampicin concentrations, whereas the slope of the exponential decrease in the rates of RNA and protein synthesis was unaffected. In all cases, the exponential decrease continued to at least a 99.8% inhibition of the original rate of synthesis. These in vivo results are consistent with the mode of rifampicin action determined from in vitro studies; rifampicin prevents initiations of RNA polymerase on deoxyribonucleic acid, but not its propagation, by binding the enzyme essentially irreversibly. The results also indicate the size distribution of messenger RNA molecules in E. coli under our conditions.
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