Clayton Christine, Shapira Michal
Zentrum für Molekualre Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2007 Dec;156(2):93-101. doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.07.007. Epub 2007 Jul 19.
Gene expression in Kinetoplastids is very unusual in that the open reading frames are arranged in long polycistronic arrays, monocistronic mRNAs being created by post-transcriptional processing. Thus the regulation of gene expression is post-transcriptional. We here discuss recent results concerning the enzymes required for mRNA degradation, and components of the translation initiation machinery, and how both are regulated.
动质体中的基因表达非常独特,其开放阅读框排列成长的多顺反子阵列,单顺反子mRNA通过转录后加工产生。因此,基因表达的调控是转录后水平的。我们在此讨论关于mRNA降解所需的酶、翻译起始机制的组成部分以及两者如何被调控的最新研究结果。