Athanasopoulos V, Praszkier J, Pittard A J
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
J Bacteriol. 1999 Mar;181(6):1811-9. doi: 10.1128/JB.181.6.1811-1819.1999.
Replication of the IncL/M plasmid pMU604 is controlled by a small antisense RNA molecule (RNAI), which, by inhibiting the formation of an RNA pseudoknot, regulates translation of the replication initiator protein, RepA. Efficient translation of the repA mRNA was shown to require the translation and correct termination of the leader peptide, RepB, and the formation of the pseudoknot. Although the pseudoknot was essential for the expression of repA, its presence was shown to interfere with the translation of repB. The requirement for pseudoknot formation could in large part be obviated by improving the ribosome binding region of repA, either by replacing the GUG start codon by AUG or by increasing the spacing between the start codon and the Shine-Dalgarno sequence (SD). The spacing between the distal pseudoknot sequence and the repA SD was shown to be suboptimal for maximal expression of repA.
IncL/M 质粒 pMU604 的复制受一个小反义 RNA 分子(RNAI)控制,该分子通过抑制 RNA 假结的形成来调节复制起始蛋白 RepA 的翻译。研究表明,repA mRNA 的有效翻译需要前导肽 RepB 的翻译和正确终止以及假结的形成。虽然假结对 repA 的表达至关重要,但它的存在会干扰 repB 的翻译。通过将 repA 的 GUG 起始密码子替换为 AUG 或增加起始密码子与 Shine-Dalgarno 序列(SD)之间的间距来改善 repA 的核糖体结合区域,在很大程度上可以避免对假结形成的需求。结果表明,远端假结序列与 repA SD 之间的间距对于 repA 的最大表达并非最优。