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Haueis L, Stech M, Kubick S. A Cell-free Expression Pipeline for the Generation and Functional Characterization of Nanobodies. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:896763. [PMID: 35573250 PMCID: PMC9096027 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.896763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cell-free systems are well-established platforms for the rapid synthesis, screening, engineering and modification of all kinds of recombinant proteins ranging from membrane proteins to soluble proteins, enzymes and even toxins. Also within the antibody field the cell-free technology has gained considerable attention with respect to the clinical research pipeline including antibody discovery and production. Besides the classical full-length monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), so-called "nanobodies" (Nbs) have come into focus. A Nb is the smallest naturally-derived functional antibody fragment known and represents the variable domain (VHH, ∼15 kDa) of a camelid heavy-chain-only antibody (HCAb). Based on their nanoscale and their special structure, Nbs display striking advantages concerning their production, but also their characteristics as binders, such as high stability, diversity, improved tissue penetration and reaching of cavity-like epitopes. The classical way to produce Nbs depends on the use of living cells as production host. Though cell-based production is well-established, it is still time-consuming, laborious and hardly amenable for high-throughput applications. Here, we present for the first time to our knowledge the synthesis of functional Nbs in a standardized mammalian cell-free system based on Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lysates. Cell-free reactions were shown to be time-efficient and easy-to-handle allowing for the "on demand" synthesis of Nbs. Taken together, we complement available methods and demonstrate a promising new system for Nb selection and validation.
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- Lisa Haueis
- Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses (IZI-BB), Potsdam, Germany.,Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses (IZI-BB), Potsdam, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI), Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses (IZI-BB), Potsdam, Germany.,Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Faculty of Health Sciences, Joint Faculty of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, The Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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Cate JHD. Human eIF3: from 'blobology' to biological insight. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 372:rstb.2016.0176. [PMID: 28138064 PMCID: PMC5311922 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Translation in eukaryotes is highly regulated during initiation, a process impacted by numerous readouts of a cell's state. There are many cases in which cellular messenger RNAs likely do not follow the canonical ‘scanning’ mechanism of translation initiation, but the molecular mechanisms underlying these pathways are still being uncovered. Some RNA viruses such as the hepatitis C virus use highly structured RNA elements termed internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) that commandeer eukaryotic translation initiation, by using specific interactions with the general eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF3. Here, I present evidence that, in addition to its general role in translation, eIF3 in humans and likely in all multicellular eukaryotes also acts as a translational activator or repressor by binding RNA structures in the 5′-untranslated regions of specific mRNAs, analogous to the role of the mediator complex in transcription. Furthermore, eIF3 in multicellular eukaryotes also harbours a 5′ 7-methylguanosine cap-binding subunit—eIF3d—which replaces the general cap-binding initiation factor eIF4E in the translation of select mRNAs. Based on results from cell biological, biochemical and structural studies of eIF3, it is likely that human translation initiation proceeds through dozens of different molecular pathways, the vast majority of which remain to be explored. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Perspectives on the ribosome’.
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- Jamie H D Cate
- Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3220, USA .,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Boudiaf-Benmammar C, Cresteil T, Melki R. The cytosolic chaperonin CCT/TRiC and cancer cell proliferation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e60895. [PMID: 23613750 PMCID: PMC3628893 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2012] [Accepted: 03/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The molecular chaperone CCT/TRiC plays a central role in maintaining cellular proteostasis as it mediates the folding of the major cytoskeletal proteins tubulins and actins. CCT/TRiC is also involved in the oncoprotein cyclin E, the Von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor protein, cyclin B and p21(ras) folding which strongly suggests that it is involved in cell proliferation and tumor genesis. To assess the involvement of CCT/TRiC in tumor genesis, we quantified its expression levels and activity in 18 cancer, one non-cancer human cell lines and a non-cancer human liver. We show that the expression levels of CCT/TRiC in cancer cell lines are higher than that in normal cells. However, CCT/TRiC activity does not always correlate with its expression levels. We therefore documented the expression levels of CCT/TRiC modulators and partners PhLP3, Hop/P60, prefoldin and Hsc/Hsp70. Our analysis reveals a functional interplay between molecular chaperones that might account for a precise modulation of CCT/TRiC activity in cell proliferation through changes in the cellular levels of prefoldin and/or Hsc/p70 and CCT/TRiC client protein availability. Our observation and approaches bring novel insights in the role of CCT/TRiC-mediated protein folding machinery in cancer cell development.
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- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Laboratoire d’Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Aspden JL, Jackson RJ. Differential effects of nucleotide analogs on scanning-dependent initiation and elongation of mammalian mRNA translation in vitro. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2010; 16:1130-1137. [PMID: 20423978 PMCID: PMC2874165 DOI: 10.1261/rna.1978610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2009] [Accepted: 03/16/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Codon-anticodon interactions are central to both the initiation and elongation phases of eukaryotic mRNA translation. The obvious difference is that the interaction takes place in the ribosomal A-site during elongation, whereas the 40S ribosomal subunit and associated initiation factors scan the mRNA sequence in search of an initiation codon with Met-tRNA(i) bound in the P-site, ceasing once codon-anticodon interaction is established at the AUG. As an indirect test of whether the two mechanisms of mRNA sequence inspection are basically similar or not, the effects of six different uridine analog substitutions in the mRNA were examined in reticulocyte lysate translation assays and 80S initiation complex formation assays. Four constructs, each with the same reporter coding sequence, were used, differing in whether the initiation codon was AUG or ACG, and in whether the 5'-UTR had U residues or not. Three analogs (5-bromoU, 5-aminoallylU, and pseudoU) inhibited both elongation and initiation, but the other three had striking differential effects. Ribothymidine had a negligible effect on elongation but caused a approximately 50% inhibition of initiation, with little effect on actual AUG recognition, which implies that inhibition must have occurred at some earlier step in initiation. In complete contrast, 2' deoxyU was prohibitive to elongation but had no effect on initiation, and 4-thioU actually stimulated initiation but quite strongly inhibited elongation processivity. These results show that the detailed mechanisms of inspection of the mRNA sequence during scanning-dependent initiation and elongation must be considerably different.
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- Julie L Aspden
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Center of Integrative Genomics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3204, USA
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Rydzik AM, Lukaszewicz M, Zuberek J, Kowalska J, Darzynkiewicz ZM, Darzynkiewicz E, Jemielity J. Synthetic dinucleotide mRNA cap analogs with tetraphosphate 5',5' bridge containing methylenebis(phosphonate) modification. Org Biomol Chem 2009; 7:4763-76. [PMID: 19865714 DOI: 10.1039/b911347a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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An effective and facile synthesis of six novel tetraphosphate cap analogs modified with a methylenebis(phosphonate) moiety (1-6) is presented. Analogs have been rationally designed to bind tightly to the eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) responsible for cap binding during the initiation of translation, and have increased stability owing to resistance to enzymatic degradation. Final compounds turned out to have significantly higher association constant values (K(AS)) for binding to eIF4E (5-9 fold higher than standard). Four of the analogs were resistant towards enzymatic degradation by human Decapping Scavenger enzyme (DcpS). Binding studies of non-hydrolyzable analogs with DcpS revealed a broad range of K(AS) values for different analogs. All of the analogs were potent inhibitors of translation in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate system (RRL) and those resistant to DcpS turned out to be stable under an elongated time of preincubation while the inhibitory potency of standard was diminished in these conditions. For Anti Reverse Cap Analog (ARCA) dinucleotides (4-6), we have shown that they are effectively incorporated into mRNA and transcripts capped with these analogs undergo translation in vitro.
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- Anna Maria Rydzik
- Division of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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Grudzien-Nogalska E, Jemielity J, Kowalska J, Darzynkiewicz E, Rhoads RE. Phosphorothioate cap analogs stabilize mRNA and increase translational efficiency in mammalian cells. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2007; 13:1745-55. [PMID: 17720878 PMCID: PMC1986804 DOI: 10.1261/rna.701307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Capped RNAs synthesized by in vitro transcription have found wide utility for studying mRNA function and metabolism and for producing proteins of interest. We characterize here a recently synthesized series of cap analogs with improved properties that contain a sulfur substitution for a nonbridging oxygen in either the alpha-, beta-, or gamma-phosphate moieties, m(2) (7,2'-O )Gppp(S)G, m(2) (7,2'-O )Gpp(S)pG, and m(2) (7,2'-O )Gp(S)ppG, respectively. The new compounds were also modified at the 2'-O position of the m(7)Guo to make them anti-reverse cap analogs (ARCAs), i.e., they are incorporated exclusively in the correct orientation during in vitro transcription. Each of the S-ARCAs exists in two diastereoisomeric forms (D1 and D2) that can be resolved by reverse-phase HPLC. A major in vivo pathway for mRNA degradation is initiated by removal of the cap by the pyrophosphatase Dcp1/Dcp2, which cleaves between the alpha- and beta-phosphates. Oligonucleotides capped with m(2) (7,2'-O )Gpp(S)pG (D2) were completely resistant to hydrolysis by recombinant human Dcp2 in vitro, whereas those capped with m(2) (7,2'-O )Gpp(S)pG (D1) and both isomers of m(2) (7,2'-O )Gppp(S)G were partially resistant. Luciferase mRNA capped with m(2) (7,2'-O )Gpp(S)pG (D2) had a t (1/2) of 257 min in cultured HC11 mammary epithelial cells compared with 86 min for m(7)Gp(3)G-capped mRNA. Luciferase mRNAs capped with m(2) (7,2'-O )Gpp(S)pG (D1) and m(2) (7,2'-O )Gpp(S)pG (D2) were translated 2.8-fold and 5.1-fold, respectively, more efficiently in HC11 cells than those capped with m(7)Gp(3)G. The greater yield of protein due to combining higher translational efficiency with longer t (1/2) of mRNA should benefit applications that utilize RNA transfection such as protein production, anti-cancer immunization, and gene therapy.
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- Ewa Grudzien-Nogalska
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71130-3932, USA
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Hinton TM, Coldwell MJ, Carpenter GA, Morley SJ, Pain VM. Functional analysis of individual binding activities of the scaffold protein eIF4G. J Biol Chem 2006; 282:1695-708. [PMID: 17130132 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m602780200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 4G is an integral member of the translation initiation machinery. The molecule serves as a scaffold for several other initiation factors, including eIF4E, eIF4AI, the eIF3 complex, and poly(A)-binding protein (PABP). Previous work indicates that complexes between these proteins exhibit enhanced mRNA cap-binding and RNA helicase activities relative to the respective individual proteins, eIF4E and eIF4A. The eIF4G-PABP interaction has been implicated in enhancing the formation of 48 S and 80 S initiation complexes and ribosome recycling through mRNA circularization. The eIF3-eIF4GI interaction is believed to forge the link between the 40 S subunit and the mRNA. Here we have investigated the behavior in vitro and in intact cells of eIF4GIf molecules lacking either the PABP-binding site, the eIF3-binding site, the middle domain eIF4A-binding site, or the C-terminal segment that includes the second eIF4A-binding site. Although in some cases the mutant forms were recruited more slowly, all of these eIF4G variants could form complexes with eIF4E, enter 48 S complexes and polysomes in vivo and in vitro, and partially rescue translation in cells targeted with eIF4GI short interfering RNA. In the reticulocyte lysate, eIF4G unable to interact directly with PABP showed little impairment in its ability to support translation, whereas loss of either of the eIF4A-binding sites or the eIF3-binding site resulted in a marked decrease in activity. We conclude that there is considerable redundancy in the mechanisms forming initiation complexes in mammalian cells, such that many individual interactions have regulatory rather than essential roles.
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- Tracey M Hinton
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom
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Slepenkov SV, Darzynkiewicz E, Rhoads RE. Stopped-flow kinetic analysis of eIF4E and phosphorylated eIF4E binding to cap analogs and capped oligoribonucleotides: evidence for a one-step binding mechanism. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:14927-38. [PMID: 16540463 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m601653200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Recruitment of eukaryotic mRNA to the 48 S initiation complex is rate-limiting for protein synthesis under normal conditions. Binding of the 5' -terminal cap structure of mRNA to eIF4E is a critical event during this process. Mammalian eIF4E is phosphorylated at Ser-209 by Mnk1 and Mnk2 kinases. We investigated the interaction of both eIF4E and phosphorylated eIF4E (eIF4E(P)) with cap analogs and capped oligoribonucleotides by stopped-flow kinetics. For m(7)GpppG, the rate constant of association, k(on), was dependent on ionic strength, decreasing progressively up to 350 mm KCl, but the rate constant of dissociation, k(off), was independent of ionic strength. Phosphorylation of eIF4E decreased k(on) by 2.1-2.3-fold at 50-100 mm KCl but had progressively less effect at higher ionic strengths, being negligible at 350 mm. Contrary to published evidence, eIF4E phosphorylation had no effect on k(off). Several observations supported a simple one-step binding mechanism, in contrast to published reports of a two-step mechanism. The kinetic function that best fit the data changed from single- to double-exponential as the eIF4E concentration was increased. However, measuring k(off) for dissociation of a pre-formed eIF4E.m(7)GpppG complex suggested that the double-exponential kinetics were caused by dissociation of eIF4E dimers, not a two-step mechanism. Addition of a 12-nucleotide chain to the cap structure increased affinity at high ionic strength for both eIF4E (24-fold) and eIF4E(P) (7-fold), primarily due to a decrease in k(off). This suggests that additional stabilizing interactions between capped oligoribonucleotides and eIF4E, which do not occur with cap analogs alone, act to slow dissociation.
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- Sergey V Slepenkov
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, USA
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Grudzien E, Kalek M, Jemielity J, Darzynkiewicz E, Rhoads RE. Differential Inhibition of mRNA Degradation Pathways by Novel Cap Analogs. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:1857-67. [PMID: 16257956 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m509121200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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mRNA degradation predominantly proceeds through two alternative routes: the 5'-->3' pathway, which requires deadenylation followed by decapping and 5'-->3' hydrolysis; and the 3'-->5' pathway, which involves deadenylation followed by 3'-->5' hydrolysis and finally decapping. The mechanisms and relative contributions of each pathway are not fully understood. We investigated the effects of different cap structure (Gp(3)G, m(7)Gp(3)G, or m(2)(7,3'-O) Gp(3)G) and 3' termini (A(31),A(60), or G(16)) on both translation and mRNA degradation in mammalian cells. The results indicated that cap structures that bind eIF4E with higher affinity stabilize mRNA to degradation in vivo. mRNA stability depends on the ability of the 5' terminus to bind eIF4E, not merely the presence of a blocking group at the 5'-end. Introducing a stem-loop in the 5'-UTR that dramatically reduces translation, but keeping the cap structure the same, does not alter the rate of mRNA degradation. To test the relative contributions of the 5'-->3' versus 3'-->5' pathways, we designed and synthesized two new cap analogs, in which a methylene group was substituted between the alpha- and beta-phosphate moieties, m(2)(7,3'-O)Gpp(CH2)pG and m(2)(7,3'-O)Gp(CH2)ppG, that are predicted to be resistant to cleavage by Dcp1/Dcp2 and DcpS, respectively. These cap analogs were recognized by eIF4E and conferred cap-dependent translation to mRNA both in vitro and in vivo. Oligonucleotides capped with m(2)(7,3'-O)Gpp(CH2)pG were resistant to hydrolysis by recombinant human Dcp2 in vitro. mRNAs capped with m(2)(7,3'-O)Gpp(CH2)pG, but not m(2)(7,3'-O)Gp(CH2)ppG, were more stable in vivo, indicating that the 5'-->3' pathway makes a major contribution to overall degradation. Luciferase mRNA containing a 5'-terminal m(2)(7,3'-O)Gpp(CH2)pG and 3'-terminal poly(G) had the greatest stability of all mRNAs tested.
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- Ewa Grudzien
- Department of Biophysics, Warsaw University, Warsaw 02-089, Poland
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Pöyry TAA, Kaminski A, Jackson RJ. What determines whether mammalian ribosomes resume scanning after translation of a short upstream open reading frame? Genes Dev 2003; 18:62-75. [PMID: 14701882 PMCID: PMC314277 DOI: 10.1101/gad.276504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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If the 5'-proximal AUG triplet in a mammalian mRNA is followed by a short open reading frame (sORF), a significant fraction of ribosomes resume scanning after termination of sORF translation, and reinitiate at a downstream AUG. To examine the underlying mechanism, we examined reinitiation in vitro using a series of mRNAs that differed only in the 5'-untranslated region (UTR). Efficient reinitiation was found to occur only if the eIF4F complex, or at a minimum the central one-third fragment of eIF4G, participated in the primary initiation event at the sORF initiation codon. It did not occur, however, when sORF translation was driven by the classical swine fever virus or cricket paralysis virus internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs), which do not use eIF4A, 4B, 4E, or 4G. A critical test was provided by an mRNA with an unstructured 5'-UTR, which is translated by scanning but does not absolutely need eIF4G and eIF4A: There was efficient reinitiation in a standard reticulocyte lysate, when initiation would be largely driven by eIF4F, but no reinitiation in an eIF4G-depleted lysate. These results suggest that resumption of scanning may depend on the interaction between eIF4F (or the eIF4G central domain) and the ribosome being maintained while the ribosome translates the sORF.
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- Tuija A A Pöyry
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
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Construction, aminoacylation and 80 S ribosomal complex formation with a yeast initiator tRNA having an arginine CCU anticodon. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(86)80639-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- H Suzuki
- Department of Genetics, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Prefectural Colony, Kasugai, Aichi 480-03, Japan
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Crew JP, Fuggle S, Bicknell R, Cranston DW, de Benedetti A, Harris AL. Eukaryotic initiation factor-4E in superficial and muscle invasive bladder cancer and its correlation with vascular endothelial growth factor expression and tumour progression. Br J Cancer 2000; 82:161-6. [PMID: 10638984 PMCID: PMC2363195 DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.1999.0894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an important factor mediating tumour angiogenesis. VEGF mRNA is differentially expressed in bladder cancer with high expression in superficial tumours (stage pTa and pT1) contrasting with low expression in muscle invasive tumours (stage > or = pT2). To investigate mechanisms regulating VEGF expression in bladder cancer, VEGF mRNA and protein were measured in normal bladder (n = 12) and primary bladder cancers (n = 57). VEGF protein levels correlated with mRNA expression in normal bladder (r = 0.68, P = 0.02) and bladder cancer (r = 0.46, P = 0.0007). Whilst VEGF mRNA expression was threefold higher in superficial compared to muscle invasive bladder cancers (P = 0.0001) there was no difference in VEGF protein (P = 0.81). Accordingly, the median protein:mRNA ratios increased more than 15-fold with increasing tumour stage (P < 0.0001) suggesting translational regulation. Expression of the eukaryotic initiation factor-4E (elF-4E), a factor implicated in the translational regulation of VEGF, was greater in tumours than normal bladder (P < 0.0001) and correlated with VEGE protein:mRNA ratios (n = 43, r = 0.54, P = 0.0004) pointing to its role in the regulation of VEGF. In superficial tumours (n = 37) high expression of eIF-4E was associated with a poor prognosis and reduced stage progression-free survival (P = 0.04, Cox proportional hazards model). The study demonstrates that eIF-4E may be involved in translational regulation of VEGF in bladder cancer and might have a role as a prognostic factor in bladder cancer.
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- J P Crew
- The Molecular Angiogenesis Group, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK
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Mueller PP, Grueter P, Hinnebusch AG, Trachsel H. A ribosomal protein is required for translational regulation of GCN4 mRNA. Evidence for involvement of the ribosome in eIF2 recycling. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:32870-7. [PMID: 9830035 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.49.32870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In amino acid-starved yeast cells, inhibition of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor eIF2B by phosphorylated translation initiation factor 2 results in increased translation of GCN4 mRNA. We isolated a suppressor of a mutant eIF2B. The suppressor prevents efficient GCN4 mRNA translation due to inactivation of the small ribosomal subunit protein Rps31 and results in low amounts of mutant 40 S ribosomal subunits. Deletion of one of two genes encoding ribosomal protein Rps17 also reduces the amounts of 40 S subunits but does not suppress eIF2B mutations or prevent efficient GCN4 translation. Our findings show that Rps31-deficient ribosomes are altered in a way that decreases the eIF2B requirement and that the small ribosomal subunit mediates the effects of low eIF2B activity on cell viability and translational regulation in response to eIF2 phosphorylation.
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- P P Mueller
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Berne, CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland.
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Parkhurst KM, Hileman RE, Saha D, Gupta NK, Parkhurst LJ. Thermodynamic characterization of the cooperativity of 40S complex formation during the initiation of eukaryotic protein synthesis. Biochemistry 1994; 33:15168-77. [PMID: 7999777 DOI: 10.1021/bi00254a028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The first step in mammalian protein synthesis is the formation of the 40S initiation complex, composed of the 40S ribosomal subunit (R), mRNA (M, here, a 10-mer oligoribonucleotide analogue containing the initiation codon), and the quaternary complex (Q, composed of eIF-2, GTP, Met-tRNA(fMet), and the ancillary protein factor Co-eIF-2C). The interdependence of the binding of R, M, and Q in forming the 40S complex is currently unclear. We have determined the thermodynamic parameters that characterize these interactions. The binary constants for R+M and Q+M were determined spectroscopically, measuring changes in the anisotropy of the fluorescence emission of 3'-fluorescein labeled M. The other binary constant, for Q+R, and the ternary constant were determined from Millipore filtration assays using radiolabeled Met-tRNA(fMet). The association constants for the binary reactions were as follows: Ka(Q,M) < or = 0.14 x 10(6) M-1, Ka(R,M) = 1.78 x 10(6) M-1, and Ka(Q,R) = 0.94 x 10(6) M-1. The binding of Q to R.M was markedly greater than that of Q to R [Ka(Q,R.M)/Ka(Q,R) > 62]. High cooperativity for this interaction occurs in either a single-site model or in lattice models for the binding of M to R. Data obtained using five other RNA 10-mers, each with the sequence altered at the AUG codon, suggest that this cooperativity is AUG dependent. The data are consistent with a scheme in which mRNA and Q bind independently to the 40S ribosome, but when the AUG codon is properly aligned with Q, a conformational change results in a 2.4 kcal/mol stabilization of the complex.
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- K M Parkhurst
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 68588-0304
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Minich WB, Balasta ML, Goss DJ, Rhoads RE. Chromatographic resolution of in vivo phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF-4E: increased cap affinity of the phosphorylated form. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:7668-72. [PMID: 8052640 PMCID: PMC44463 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.16.7668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF-4E plays a central role in the recognition of the 7-methylguanosine-containing cap structure of mRNA and the formation of initiation complexes during protein synthesis. eIF-4E exists in both phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated forms, and the primary site of phosphorylation has been identified. Previous studies have suggested that eIF-4E phosphorylation facilitates its participation in protein synthesis. However, the biochemical basis for the functional difference between the two forms of eIF-4E is unknown. To address this directly, we have developed a method for the separation of phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated eIF-4E from rabbit reticulocytes by chromatography on rRNA-Sepharose. Using the resultant purified forms, we have studied the protein's interaction with the cap analogs m7GTP and m7GpppG and with the cap of globin mRNA by fluorescence quenching of tryptophan residues. It was found that phosphorylated eIF-4E had 3- to 4-fold greater affinity for cap analogs and mRNA than nonphosphorylated eIF-4E. The equilibrium binding constants (x 10(5), expressed as M-1) for the interaction of phosphorylated eIF-4E with m7GTP, m7GpppG, and globin mRNA were 20.0 +/- 0.1, 16.4 +/- 0.1, and 31.0 +/- 0.1, respectively, whereas those for the nonphosphorylated form were 5.5 +/- 0.4, 4.3 +/- 0.4, and 10.0 +/- 0.1, respectively. Treatment with potato acid phosphatase converted the phosphorylated form to the nonphosphorylated form and decreased the binding constant for m7GTP by a factor of 3. The increased affinity for mRNA caps may account for the in vivo and in vitro correlations between eIF-4E phosphorylation and accelerated protein synthesis and cell growth.
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- W B Minich
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 71130
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Kleene KC, Smith J. Translational activity of mouse protamine 1 messenger ribonucleoprotein particles in the reticulocyte and wheat germ cell-free translation systems. Mol Reprod Dev 1994; 37:12-20. [PMID: 7907489 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1080370103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Protamine 1 mRNAs are inactivated by a block to the initiation of translation in early spermatids and are translationally active in late spermatids in mice. To determine whether translation of protamine 1 mRNAs is inhibited by a protein repressor, the translational activity of ribonucleoprotein particles and deproteinized RNAs were compared in the reticulocyte and wheat germ cell-free translation lysates. To isolate RNPs, cytoplasmic extracts of total testes were fractionated by large-pore gel filtration chromatography. Ribonucleoprotein particles in the excluded fractions stimulated synthesis of radiolabeled translation products for protamine 1 about twofold less effectively than deproteinized RNAs in the reticulocyte lysate, but were inactive in the wheat germ lysate. The ability of translationally repressed protamine 1 ribonucleoprotein particles to form initiation complexes with 80S ribosomes in the reticulocyte lysate was also measured. Protamine 1 ribonucleoprotein particles isolated by gel filtration and in unfractionated cytoplasmic extracts of early spermatids were nearly as active in forming initiation complexes as deproteinized mRNAs. The isolation of ribonucleoprotein particles in buffers of varying ionic strength, protease inhibitors, and several other variables had no major effect on the ability of protamine 1 ribonucleoprotein particles to form initiation complexes in the reticulocyte lysate. These results can be explained by artifacts in the isolation or assay of ribonucleoprotein particles or by postulating that protamine 1 mRNAs are inactivated by a mechanism that does not involve protein repressors, such as sequestration.
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- K C Kleene
- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Boston 02125-33943
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Rhoads RE, Joshi-Barve S, Rinker-Schaeffer C. Mechanism of action and regulation of protein synthesis initiation factor 4E: effects on mRNA discrimination, cellular growth rate, and oncogenesis. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1993; 46:183-219. [PMID: 8234784 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)61022-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- R E Rhoads
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 71130
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Nilsson L, Nygård O. Reduced puromycin sensitivity of translocated polysomes after the addition of elongation factor 2 and non-hydrolysable GTP analogues. FEBS Lett 1992; 309:89-91. [PMID: 1511751 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)80746-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Treatment of reticulocyte polysomes with elongation factor eEF-2 and GTP led to an increased sensitivity of peptidyl-tRNA for puromycin as a result of the translocation from the ribosomal A-site to the P-site. Upon addition of an excess of the non-hydrolysable GTP analogue, GuoPP[CH2]P, the puromycin sensitivity decreased rapidly. The decrease in sensitivity required high concentrations of eEF-2 with half maximal effect at an eEF-2 concentration of around 1 microM. The data suggest either that peptidyl-tRNA had re-translocated back to the A-site due to the higher affinity of eEF-2 for the pre-translocation than for the post-translocation ribosome, or that the eEF-2-GuoPP[CH2]P complex blocks the peptidyl-transferase activity.
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- L Nilsson
- Department of Cell Biology, Arrhenius Laboratories E5, Stockholm University, Sweden
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Expression of antisense RNA against initiation factor eIF-4E mRNA in HeLa cells results in lengthened cell division times, diminished translation rates, and reduced levels of both eIF-4E and the p220 component of eIF-4F. Mol Cell Biol 1991. [PMID: 1922056 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.11.5435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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HeLa cells were transformed to express antisense RNA against initiation factor eIF-4E mRNA from an inducible promoter. In the absence of inducer, these cells (AS cells) were morphologically similar to control cells but grew four- to sevenfold more slowly. Induction of antisense RNA production was lethal. Both eIF-4E mRNA and protein levels were reduced in proportion to the degree of antisense RNA expression, as were the rates of protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro. Polysomes were disaggregated with a concomitant increase in ribosomal subunits. Translation in vitro was restored by addition of the initiation factor complex eIF-4F but not by eIF-4E alone. Immunological analysis revealed that the p220 component of eIF-4F was decreased in extracts of AS cells and undetectable in AS cells treated with inducer, suggesting that p220 and eIF-4E levels are coordinately regulated. eIF-4A, another component of eIF-4F, was unaltered.
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De Benedetti A, Joshi-Barve S, Rinker-Schaeffer C, Rhoads RE. Expression of antisense RNA against initiation factor eIF-4E mRNA in HeLa cells results in lengthened cell division times, diminished translation rates, and reduced levels of both eIF-4E and the p220 component of eIF-4F. Mol Cell Biol 1991; 11:5435-45. [PMID: 1922056 PMCID: PMC361686 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.11.5435-5445.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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HeLa cells were transformed to express antisense RNA against initiation factor eIF-4E mRNA from an inducible promoter. In the absence of inducer, these cells (AS cells) were morphologically similar to control cells but grew four- to sevenfold more slowly. Induction of antisense RNA production was lethal. Both eIF-4E mRNA and protein levels were reduced in proportion to the degree of antisense RNA expression, as were the rates of protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro. Polysomes were disaggregated with a concomitant increase in ribosomal subunits. Translation in vitro was restored by addition of the initiation factor complex eIF-4F but not by eIF-4E alone. Immunological analysis revealed that the p220 component of eIF-4F was decreased in extracts of AS cells and undetectable in AS cells treated with inducer, suggesting that p220 and eIF-4E levels are coordinately regulated. eIF-4A, another component of eIF-4F, was unaltered.
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- A De Benedetti
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536
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Jackson RJ. The ATP requirement for initiation of eukaryotic translation varies according to the mRNA species. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 200:285-94. [PMID: 1889398 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb16184.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The requirement for ATP for initiation of eukaryotic mRNA translation was tested using gel-filtered rabbit reticulocyte lysates incubated with labelled Met-tRNAfMet and exogenous RNA templates, and assaying the formation of labelled 80S initiation complexes in the presence of GTP, or labelled 40S initiation complexes in the presence of a non-hydrolysable analogue of GTP. Initiation complex formation on globin mRNA, or on capped viral RNAs such as papaya mosaic virus RNA and tobacco mosaic virus RNA, was strongly stimulated by ATP. In contrast, initiation complex formation on (uncapped) encephalomyocarditis virus RNA was uninfluenced by the presence or absence of ATP, which may be correlated with the recent evidence for scanning-independent internal initiation on this viral RNA. In addition, initiation complex formation on uncapped cowpea mosaic virus RNA and on poly(A,U,G) was only slightly stimulated by ATP, much less than in the case of the capped RNAs. These results suggest that most of the ATP hydrolysed during translation initiation is consumed in cap-dependent processes, probably in unwinding the mRNA, and relatively little in the actual migration or scanning of 40S subunits along the mRNA.
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- R J Jackson
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, England
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Fong WP, Wong RN, Go TT, Yeung HW. Minireview: enzymatic properties of ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) and related toxins. Life Sci 1991; 49:1859-69. [PMID: 1745101 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(91)90286-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a group of proteins that inhibit protein synthesis in eucaryotic cells. While the biological effects have been well characterized, the underlying enzymatic mechanisms have not been elucidated until recently. Two different mechanisms have been identified. Plant and bacterial RIPs act as N-glycosidases. They cleave a single N-glycosidic bond between adenine and ribose at a specific nucleotide A-4324 of the 28S rRNA of the 60S ribosomal subunit. On the other hand, the fungal RIPs act as ribonucleases and cleave a single phosphodiester bond between G-4325 and A-4326 of the same rRNA, just one nucleotide away from the site of action of plant/bacterial RIPs. Other protein synthesis inhibitory proteins act by their ADP-ribosyltransferase activity which modify and thus inactivate elongation factor-2. Recently, some toxins have been shown to possess deoxyribonuclease activity which may also account for their toxicity.
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- W P Fong
- Department of Biochemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T
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Protein synthesis is impaired in skeletal muscle and heart from diabetic rats. In muscles composed primarily of slow-twitch fibres (e.g. heart or soleus), the inhibition of protein synthesis can be accounted for entirely by a decrease in the amount of RNA. In contrast, in muscles of mixed fibre composition (e.g. gastrocnemius or psoas), the inhibition of protein synthesis is associated with an impairment in peptide-chain initiation. We have found that the inhibition of peptide-chain initiation that occurs in muscles composed of mixed fast-twitch fibres involves eukaryotic initiation factor 2B (eIF-2B). Thus, eIF-2B activity is inhibited in gastrocnemius and psoas but not heart or soleus from diabetic rats. In other systems eIF-2B activity is regulated by phosphorylation of the alpha-subunit of a second initiation factor, eIF-2. However, we have found no change in the phosphorylation state of eIF-2 alpha in either fast- or slow-twitch muscles from diabetic compared to control animals. Instead, the available evidence suggests that eIF-2B activity may be modulated by an alternate mechanism such as a change in the extent of phosphorylation of the 82,000 Mr subunit of the factor or a change in the NADPH/NADP+ ratio.
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- S R Kimball
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey 17033
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Osborn RW, Hartley MR. Dual effects of the ricin A chain on protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysate. Inhibition of initiation and translocation. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 193:401-7. [PMID: 2226460 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19353.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Ricin A chain caused inhibition of protein synthesis by reticulocyte lysate with concomitant depurination of 28S rRNA. The partial reaction(s) of protein synthesis inhibited was investigated by following the appearance of [35S]methionine from initiator [35S]Met-tRNA into 40S ribosomal subunits, 80S monosomes and polysomes. Ricin A chain caused an accumulation of [35S]Met in monosomes which did not enter polysomes. In these respects the effects of the ricin A chain resembled those of diphtheria toxin, an inhibitor of elongation-factor-2-catalyzed translocation. This is consistent with the previously proposed site of action of ricin as an inhibitor of elongation. However, the inhibitory effects of the ricin A chain and diphtheria toxin are not equivalent because we observed that the rate of formation of the 80S initiation complex was reduced approximately sixfold with the ricin A chain relative to diphtheria toxin. Analysis of methionine-containing peptides bound to 80S monosomes in ricin-A-chain-inhibited and diphtheria-toxin-inhibited lysates, programmed with globin mRNA, revealed a predominance of Met-Val, suggesting that the elongation cycle is inhibited at the translocation step. Translocation was also implicated as the step blocked in both the ricin-A-chain-inhibited and diphtheria-toxin-inhibited lysates, by the finding that nascent peptide chains were unreactive towards puromycin. It is concluded that ricin-A-chain-modified ribosomes are deficient in two protein synthesis partial reactions: the formation of the 80S initiation complex during initiation and the translocation step of the elongation cycle.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Centrifugation, Density Gradient
- Chromatography, Thin Layer
- Diphtheria Toxin/pharmacology
- Globins/biosynthesis
- In Vitro Techniques
- Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational/drug effects
- Peptide Elongation Factor Tu/drug effects
- Protein Biosynthesis/drug effects
- Purines/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/drug effects
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S/drug effects
- RNA, Transfer, Met/drug effects
- Rabbits
- Reticulocytes/drug effects
- Ricin/pharmacology
- Translocation, Genetic/drug effects
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- R W Osborn
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
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Binding of ATP to eukaryotic initiation factor 2. Differential modulation of mRNA-binding activity and GTP-dependent binding of methionyl-tRNAMetf. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)38815-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Dasso MC, Milburn SC, Hershey JW, Jackson RJ. Selection of the 5'-proximal translation initiation site is influenced by mRNA and eIF-2 concentrations. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 187:361-71. [PMID: 2298214 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15313.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A cDNA clone of the influenza virus NS (non-structural protein) gene in a vector carrying a bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase promoter was manipulated so as to reiterate the initiation site to give two in-frame AUG codons 57 nucleotide residues apart. Each initiation site was in either a preferred context (...AUAAUGG...) or a less favourable context (...UUUAUGG...) and the four possible permutations were constructed. When capped mRNA transcripts of these clones were translated in the rabbit reticulocyte lysate system, products from initiation at both AUG codons were observed. At low RNA concentrations the frequency of initiation at the 5'-proximal AUG codon rather than the second was higher when the first AUG codon was in the preferred context, in qualitative agreement with the scanning ribosome model. However, a completely unexpected finding was that the ratio of initiation at the first AUG codon to initiation at the second decreased with increasing mRNA concentration, irrespective of the particular context involved. Several lines of evidence indicated that the increased frequency of initiation at the second AUG codon was not due solely to the lower density of ribosome loading per mRNA at high RNA concentrations, and may therefore be the result of high RNA concentrations out-titring the capacity of endogenous reticulocyte factors responsible for preferential initiation at the 5'-proximal AUG codon. The effect of supplementing the system with purified initiation factors was examined. Only eIF-2 was capable of decreasing the frequency of initiation at the second AUG codon and promoting use of the first AUG at high mRNA concentrations; eIF-3, 4A, 4B, 4C + 4D, 4F and 5 were inactive.
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- M C Dasso
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, England
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Hernandez-Perez O, Luna G, Mercado E, Delgado N, Rosado A. Effect of cupric ions on the initiation protein synthesis rate in the human endometrium. Contraception 1989; 40:751-61. [PMID: 2620533 DOI: 10.1016/0010-7824(89)90077-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The effect of cupric ions on the initiation protein synthesis rate of the human endometrium was studied. Addition of copper to the complete ribosomal system decreased the binding of [3H]Met-tRNA(i) to the isolated ribosomes with a plateau at about 70% inhibition with concentrations higher than 150 microM. The initiation activity was GTP-dependent with a maximum at 2 mM. This activity was very rapid, requiring 5 min to complete the reaction. Incubation of isolated initiation factors with copper (300 microM) inhibited the formation of the ternary complex. When the complete system was reconstituted with salt-washed ribosomes after ternary complex formation, no significant change on the inhibition pattern was observed. Addition of initiation factors to 5-min preincubated salt-washed ribosomes with 300 microM copper, after the elimination of excess copper, induced only a 12% decrease on Met-tRNA(i) binding. This effect was not modified by the presence of Sparsomycin, an elongation inhibitor. It was concluded that copper interferes with the initiation process, probably at the ternary complex formation level.
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- O Hernandez-Perez
- Laboratorio de Biologia Molecular, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico, D.F
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Dasso MC, Jackson RJ. Efficient initiation of mammalian mRNA translation at a CUG codon. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:6485-97. [PMID: 2780285 PMCID: PMC318343 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.16.6485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Nucleotide substitutions were made at the initiation codon of an influenza virus NS cDNA clone in a vector carrying the bacteriophage T7 promoter. When capped mRNA transcripts of these constructs were translated in the rabbit reticulocyte lysate, a change in the initiation codon from...AUAAUGG...to...AUACUGG...reduced the in vitro translational efficiency by only 50-60%, and resulted in only a small increase in the yield of short products presumed to be initiated at downstream sites. Synthesis of the full-length product was initiated exclusively at the mutated codon, with negligible use either of in-frame upstream CUG or GUG codons, or of an in-frame downstream GUG codon. We conclude that CUG has the potential to function as an efficient initiation codon in mammalian systems, at least in certain contexts.
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- M C Dasso
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
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Dasso MC, Jackson RJ. On the fidelity of mRNA translation in the nuclease-treated rabbit reticulocyte lysate system. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:3129-44. [PMID: 2726454 PMCID: PMC317719 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.8.3129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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As a test of the fidelity of the rabbit reticulocyte lysate system, we have examined the products of translation of various different influenza virus mRNAs, produced by in vitro transcription. A common finding with all mRNA species was that the ratio of full-length translation product to incomplete products decreased with increasing mRNA concentration. These short products are a mixture of (i) polypeptides initiated at the authentic initiation site but terminated prematurely, and (ii) polypeptides initiated at internal sites and terminated at the correct site. Analysis of mRNA stability during the translation assay showed very little degradation, quite insufficient to be the principle cause of incomplete product synthesis. Investigation of the influence of various parameters on the ratio of full-length to incomplete products leads to the conclusion that a high fidelity of translation can be obtained provided certain precautions are followed: the use of capped, rather than uncapped, mRNAs at low concentrations, with KCl concentrations about 20 mM above the level that gives maximum incorporation.
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- M C Dasso
- Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge, UK
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Kimball SR, Jefferson LS. Cellular mechanisms involved in the action of insulin on protein synthesis. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1988; 4:773-87. [PMID: 3069402 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610040806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- S R Kimball
- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey 17033
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Cummings A, Sommerville J. Protein kinase activity associated with stored messenger ribonucleoprotein particles of Xenopus oocytes. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1988; 107:45-56. [PMID: 3392105 PMCID: PMC2115189 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.107.1.45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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As the oocytes of Xenopus laevis grow and develop they accumulate vast stores of mRNA for use during early embryogenesis. The stored mRNA is stabilized and may be prevented from being translated in oocytes by the binding of a defined set of oocyte-specific proteins to form messenger RNP (mRNP) particles. A key event in the interaction of protein with mRNA is the phosphorylation of those few polypeptides that bind directly to all classes of polyadenylated mRNA. In this study we show that the phosphorylating enzyme (protein kinase), in addition to its target phosphoproteins, is an integral component of the mRNP particles. This association extends through various stages in the formation and use of the mRNP particles. Examination of material from oocytes of an early developmental stage (early stage 1), when the level of accumulated mRNA is low, reveals an excess of protein particles free of RNA, sedimenting at 6-18 S, and containing protein kinase activity and mRNA-binding phosphoproteins. At stages of maximum rate of mRNA accumulation (stages 1 and 2), the phosphoproteins and kinase are found primarily in individual mRNP particles that sediment at 40-80 S. As ribosomes become abundant (stages 2 and 3), the mRNP particles tend to interact with ribosomal subunits, at least in vitro, to form blocked translation initiation complexes that sediment at 80-110 S. These results are compared with observation on stored mRNP in other developmental systems.
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- A Cummings
- Department of Biology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
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Fertilization of sea urchin eggs results in a large increase in the rate of protein synthesis which is mediated by the translation of stored maternal mRNA. The masked message hypothesis suggests that messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) from unfertilized eggs are translationally inactive and that fertilization results in alterations of the mRNPs such that they become translationally active. Previous workers have isolated egg mRNPs by sucrose gradient centrifugation and have assayed their translational activity in heterologous cell-free systems. The conflicting results they obtained are probably due to the sensitivity of mRNPs to artifactual activation and inactivation. Previously, we demonstrated that unfractionated mRNPs in a sea urchin cell-free translation system were translationally inactive. Now, using large-pore gel filtration chromatography, we partially purified egg mRNPs while retaining their translationally repressed state. Polysomal mRNPs from fertilized eggs isolated under the same conditions were translationally active. The changes in the pattern of proteins synthesized by fractionated unfertilized and fertilized mRNPs in vitro were similar to those changes observed in vivo. Treatment of egg mRNPs with buffers containing high salt and EDTA, followed by rechromatography, resulted in the activation of the mRNPs and the release of an inhibitor of translation from the mRNPs. Analysis of the inhibitory fraction on one-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate gels indicated that this fraction contains a complex set of proteins, several of which were released from high-salt-EDTA-activated mRNPs and not from inactive low-salt control mRNPs. One of the released proteins may be responsible for the repression of egg mRNPs in vitro and be involved in the unmasking of mRNPs at fertilization.
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Gadbois DM, Salo WL, Ann DK, Downing SW, Carlson DM. The preparation of poly(A)+mRNA from the hagfish slime gland. PREPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 18:67-76. [PMID: 2897686 DOI: 10.1080/00327488808062513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The isolation of translatable poly(A)+mRNA from the slime glands of the Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stouti, is not possible by the commonly used procedures because of the viscous slime that is formed when the contents of the glands are hydrated. This paper reports on a procedure developed to overcome this problem. Briefly, the tissue was powdered in liquid nitrogen, mixed with sodium lauroylsarcosine and proteinase K and lyophilized. The lyophilized powder was then mixed with 0.3 mm diameter glass beads, thoroughly ground and wetted with buffer and digested at 37 degrees C. The RNA from the digest was recovered by ultracentrifugation through a CsCl cushion. Further purification of the RNA was accomplished by the usual methods with slight modifications.
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- D M Gadbois
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Duluth 55812
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Fertilization of sea urchin eggs results in a large increase in the rate of protein synthesis which is mediated by the translation of stored maternal mRNA. The masked message hypothesis suggests that messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) from unfertilized eggs are translationally inactive and that fertilization results in alterations of the mRNPs such that they become translationally active. Previous workers have isolated egg mRNPs by sucrose gradient centrifugation and have assayed their translational activity in heterologous cell-free systems. The conflicting results they obtained are probably due to the sensitivity of mRNPs to artifactual activation and inactivation. Previously, we demonstrated that unfractionated mRNPs in a sea urchin cell-free translation system were translationally inactive. Now, using large-pore gel filtration chromatography, we partially purified egg mRNPs while retaining their translationally repressed state. Polysomal mRNPs from fertilized eggs isolated under the same conditions were translationally active. The changes in the pattern of proteins synthesized by fractionated unfertilized and fertilized mRNPs in vitro were similar to those changes observed in vivo. Treatment of egg mRNPs with buffers containing high salt and EDTA, followed by rechromatography, resulted in the activation of the mRNPs and the release of an inhibitor of translation from the mRNPs. Analysis of the inhibitory fraction on one-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate gels indicated that this fraction contains a complex set of proteins, several of which were released from high-salt-EDTA-activated mRNPs and not from inactive low-salt control mRNPs. One of the released proteins may be responsible for the repression of egg mRNPs in vitro and be involved in the unmasking of mRNPs at fertilization.
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- J L Grainger
- Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin 78712
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McDermott P, Whitaker-Dowling P, Klein I. Regulation of cardiac myosin synthesis: studies of RNA content in cultured heart cells. Exp Cell Res 1987; 173:183-92. [PMID: 3678378 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(87)90344-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Contraction regulates the myosin content and the rate of myosin synthesis in cultured neonatal rat heart cells. To further explore the mechanism for this regulation we examined various parameters of RNA content and RNA synthesis in contacting versus noncontracting myocytes. While contraction stimulated myosin heavy chain (MHC) synthesis by 72% compared to that of KCl-arrested cells, simultaneous analyses of polysome profiles were no different under the two culture conditions. Incorporation of [3H]uridine monophosphate into cellular RNA revealed no change in the rate of total RNA or ribosomal subunits synthesis. In vitro translation of cellular RNA yielded similar incorporation of [35S]methionine into trichloroacetic acid precipitable protein. Specific transcription of the MHC gene was examined by dot-blot analysis and was unaltered by contraction. Northern blot analysis of the MHC sequences detected by a cDNA probe revealed an mRNA sequence corresponding to a molecular weight of approximately 30 S. These data suggest that RNA synthesis and RNA content are unaltered by contraction in cultured heart cells and therefore the changes in myosin synthesis may be mediated at a post-transcriptional control level.
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- P McDermott
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania 15260
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Mitogen-activated S6 kinase is stimulated via protein kinase C-dependent and independent pathways in Swiss 3T3 cells. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)60850-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Evidence that phosphorylation of eIF-2(alpha) prevents the eIF-2B-mediated dissociation of eIF-2 X GDP from the 60 S subunit of complete initiation complexes. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)48329-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Wagner T, Gross M, Sigler PB. CpA containing oligoribonucleotides specifically inhibit protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocytes. FEBS Lett 1987; 212:317-22. [PMID: 3817164 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(87)81368-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The diribonucleoside monophosphate CpA (and no others) inhibits polypeptide chain elongation in rabbit reticulocyte lysates at 10-50 microM. Furthermore, all the trinucleotides containing CpA, i.e., XpCpA and CpApX (X = U, C, A or G) block polypeptide chain elongation as well. At 10 microM the inhibition by XpCpA and not CpApX is transient because a 3'-exonucleolytic activity destroys the critical CpA moiety. The inhibitors do not appear to interfere with the aminoacylation of tRNAs or disrupt the interaction of amino-acyl-tRNAs with the protein synthetic machinery. High levels (200 microM) of CpA or the trinucleotides containing CpA have no effect on translation in a wheat germ cell-free system.
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A small molecular weight RNA isolated from barley embryos inhibits specifically protein synthesis initiation. It does not bind to Oligo (dT)-Cellulose indicating that it is devoid of long poly(A) stretches. It is a single stranded RNA as it is sensitive to pancreatic RNase. This is the first report of such an RNA in a plant system.
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Cosgrove JW, Rapoport SI. Absence of age differences in protein synthesis by rat brain, measured with an initiating cell-free system. Neurobiol Aging 1987; 8:27-34. [PMID: 3561663 DOI: 10.1016/0197-4580(87)90054-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A cell-free protein synthesis system was derived from brains of young (3 month) and old (greater than 23 month) male Fischer-344 rats in order to examine brain protein synthesis in relation to age. The system was shown to be capable of reinitiating protein synthesis in vitro, and of synthesizing protein from exogenously added mRNA. Optimal ionic conditions for amino acid incorporation were 200 mM potassium ion and 5 mM magnesium ion, and amino acid incorporation depended on addition of ATP, GTP, and an energy-generating system (creatine phosphate and creatine phosphokinase). Amino acid incorporation was sensitive to the initiation inhibitors aurintricarboxylic acid and sodium fluoride. Optimal conditions were independent of the age of the rat from which the brain was taken. There was no statistically significant relation (p greater than 0.05) between capacity of amino acid incorporation and age. The aggregation state of brain polyribosomes also did not differ between young (3 month) and old (30 month) rats. The results suggest that overall brain protein synthesis capacity is age-invariant in the rat.
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Lobo DS, Rebello MA, Moussatché N. Core transcription restores in vitro inhibition of protein synthesis induced by vaccinia virus. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1986; 868:183-9. [PMID: 3790565 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(86)90053-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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When Ehrlich acistes tumor cell lysate is incubated in the presence of vaccinia core, protein synthesis is impaired. However, when the same system is coupled with viral transcription, protein synthesis is restored. The reversal of endogenous protein synthesis is inhibited by actinomycin D, suggesting that de novo RNA synthesis is required for the reversal of total protein synthesis. When the in vitro products of synthesis are analysed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, two newly synthesized peptides which are not present in the noncoupled transcription-translation system are observed. These two peptides have molecular weights of 31 000 and 25 000, similar to viral early proteins.
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Shakin SH, Liebhaber SA. Destabilization of messenger RNA/complementary DNA duplexes by the elongating 80 S ribosome. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66669-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Hassin D, Korn R, Horwitz MS. A major internal initiation site for the in vitro translation of the adenovirus DNA polymerase. Virology 1986; 155:214-24. [PMID: 3776100 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(86)90181-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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An open reading frame which encodes at least 90% of the adenovirus type 2 DNA polymerase gene was cloned behind the SP6 promoter and transcribed in vitro using the SP6 RNA polymerase. The resultant RNA was translated in a rabbit reticulocyte cell free system. In addition to the translation of a 120-kDa protein corresponding to the size of the complete open reading frame, the synthesis of a 62-kDa polypeptide was demonstrated. Data is presented to show that the synthesis of the 62-kDa polypeptide resulted from internal initiation of translation in frame in the middle of the message at the 11th or 12th AUG. Capping of the mRNA resulted in an increase in synthesis of the 120-kDa protein and a concordant decrease of the internally initiated polypeptide. We propose that there may be competition between the binding of the translational preinitiation complex at or near the 5' end of the mRNA and at the internal initiation site. Because of inhibition of synthesis of the 120-kDa but not the 62-kDa polypeptide by hybrid arrested translation using DNA complementary to approximately one third of the 5' Ad Pol mRNA sequences, scanning of the ribosome from the 5' end of the mRNA to the internal initiation site seemed unlikely. The sequence proximal to the 12th AUG is ACCCACCCCAUG which is similar to a noncontinuous sequence 5'AUCCACC(X)nAUG complementary to the 3' end of the 18 S rRNA. This sequence is a favored ribosome binding site based on the observation that it is the most commonly observed one at or near the 5' end of 162 mRNA's analyzed (D. R. Sargan, S. P. Gregory, and P. H. W. Butterworth, 1982, FEBS Lett. 147, 133-136).
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Cosgrove JW, Rapoport SI. Preparation of a cell-free extract from rat brain which can initiate protein synthesis in vitro. Neurochem Res 1986; 11:1289-301. [PMID: 3785546 DOI: 10.1007/bf00966123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A cell-free protein synthesis system, derived from brains of 3 mo-old male Fischer-344 rats, has been characterized. The optimum conditions for amino acid incorporation in the system were 5 mM magnesium ion and 200 mM potassium ion. Incorporation depended on the addition of ATP, GTP, and an energy-generating system, and was sensitive to addition of the drugs aurintricarboxylic acid and sodium fluoride, inhibitors of initiation of protein synthesis. Both 40S and 80S initiation complexes were labeled in vitro, using [35S]methionine. Such labeling was sensitive to the protein synthesis inhibitors, aurintricarboxylic acid and sodium fluoride. The system, which can initiate protein synthesis, should be of use for examining mechanisms which underlie alterations in rat brain protein synthesis induced by various treatments.
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Clemens MJ, Tilleray VJ. Inhibition of polypeptide chain initiation in Daudi cells by interferons. Evidence that activity of initiation factor eIF-2 and availability of mRNA are unimpaired. Biochem J 1986; 237:877-84. [PMID: 2432877 PMCID: PMC1147070 DOI: 10.1042/bj2370877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The accompanying paper [McNurlan & Clemens (1986) Biochem. J. 237, 871-876] shows that the inhibition of proliferation of Daudi cells by human interferons is associated with impairment of the overall rate of protein synthesis. We have examined whether two of the mechanisms which are believed to control translation in interferon-treated virus-infected cells may be responsible for the inhibition of protein synthesis during the antiproliferative response in these uninfected cells. Although the rate of polypeptide chain initiation is lower in interferon-treated Daudi cells, as indicated by the disaggregation of polysomes, there is no significant inhibition of activity of initiation factor eIF-2 or of [40 S . Met-tRNAf] initiation complex formation in cell extracts. The phosphorylation state of the alpha subunit of eIF-2 remains unaltered. There is no major decrease in mRNA content as a proportion of total RNA up to 4 days of interferon treatment, as judged by poly(A) content, although the amount of total mRNA/10(6) cells eventually declines. The mRNA present in extracts from interferon-treated cells remains translatable when added to an mRNA-dependent reticulocyte lysate system. We conclude that neither the interferon-inducible eIF-2 protein kinase pathway nor the 2',5'-oligo(adenylate)-ribonuclease L pathway are responsible for the inhibition of polypeptide chain initiation. Rather, the data suggest impairment at the level of formation of [80 S ribosome X mRNA] initiation complexes.
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Fleming SW, Brown IR. Characterization of a translational inhibitor isolated from rabbit brain following intravenous administration of d-lysergic acid diethylamide. J Neurochem 1986; 46:1436-43. [PMID: 3633951 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1986.tb01759.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Intravenous administration of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to rabbits results in a transient inhibition of brain protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro. A translational inhibitor that appears in the postribosomal supernatant fraction of cerebral hemispheres following LSD administration was partially purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-150 and precipitation with 60% ammonium sulfate. This inhibitor, which was proteinaceous, reduced the translational capacity of an initiating cell-free protein synthesis system derived from brain. It also inhibited a messenger RNA-dependent reticulocyte lysate programmed with brain polysomes and a globin-synthesizing reticulocyte lysate system. Addition of the partially purified inhibitor to a brain cell-free protein synthesis system resulted in the decreased formation of ternary complexes as well as 40 and 80S initiation complexes, suggesting that the inhibitor affects an early step in the initiation of protein synthesis in brain.
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Purification and characterization of a protein kinase from Xenopus eggs highly specific for ribosomal protein S6. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42478-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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