Abstract
Different levels of β-galactosidase are found in various trp-lac fusion strains. These levels of β-galactosidase fall within a 60-fold range. The amount of thiogalactoside transacetylase activity detected in these same strains only varies 10-fold and is found in amounts greater than those predicted from the β-galactosidase levels. The observation that the β-galactosidase and thiogalactoside transacetylase levels are not directly proportional, that the lacZ messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels are not proportional to the β-galactosidase activity, that, at least for the one fusion strain tested, the SuA polarity suppressor does not affect the β-galactosidase level, and that, in all but one strain, the β-galactosidase activity appears to reside in normal β-galactosidase molecules suggests that the disproportionately low production of β-galactosidase is due to a decrease in the frequency of translation initiation of lacZ mRNA in these strains. Several mechanisms are proposed to explain this decrease. Some possible bases for the disproportional production of β-galactosidase and thiogalactoside transacetylase are also described. The preferred explanation for these disproportional enzyme levels is that only a fraction of the full complement of ribosomes need initiate translation at lacZ for the functional synthesis of lac mRNA to occur and that once the lac ribonucleic acid is made a full complement of ribosomes can bind at internal translation initiation sites at Y and A .
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Deposited | 4 years ago (July 29, 2021, 1:12 p.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 7 months ago (Jan. 15, 2024, 12:18 p.m.) |
Issued | 51 years, 5 months ago (March 1, 1974) |
Published | 51 years, 5 months ago (March 1, 1974) |
Published Print | 51 years, 5 months ago (March 1, 1974) |
@article{Reznikoff_1974, title={Inhibition of lacZ Gene Translation Initiation in trp-lac Fusion Strains}, volume={117}, ISSN={1098-5530}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.117.3.1231-1239.1974}, DOI={10.1128/jb.117.3.1231-1239.1974}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Bacteriology}, publisher={American Society for Microbiology}, author={Reznikoff, William S. and Michels, Corinne A. and Cooper, Terrance G. and Silverstone, Allen E. and Magasanik, Boris}, year={1974}, month=mar, pages={1231–1239} }