O'Mahony D J, Hughes D, Thompson S, Atkins J F
Department of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
J Bacteriol. 1989 Jul;171(7):3824-30. doi: 10.1128/jb.171.7.3824-3830.1989.
sufS was found to suppress the only known suppressible-1 frameshift mutation, trpE91, at a site identified as GGA and mapped within the single gene of the only tRNA that can decode GGA in Escherichia coli. It mapped to the same gene in Salmonella typhimurium. sufS alleles were recessive, and dominant alleles could not be isolated. This is in contrast to all other tRNA structural gene mutations identified thus far that cause frameshift suppression. The recessiveness implies that all sufS alleles are poor competitors against their wild-type tRNA(Gly2) counterparts. The base G immediately 5' of the GGA suppression site influenced the level but was not critical for suppression by sufS601. From this result, it is inferred that sufS601 causes frameshifting by doublet decoding.
sufS被发现可抑制唯一已知的可抑制-1移码突变trpE91,其抑制位点被确定为GGA,且位于大肠杆菌中唯一能解码GGA的tRNA的单个基因内。在鼠伤寒沙门氏菌中,它映射到同一个基因。sufS等位基因是隐性的,无法分离出显性等位基因。这与迄今为止鉴定出的所有导致移码抑制的其他tRNA结构基因突变形成对比。隐性意味着所有sufS等位基因与其野生型tRNA(Gly2)对应物相比,竞争能力较差。GGA抑制位点5'端紧邻的碱基G影响抑制水平,但对于sufS601的抑制作用并非关键因素。从这一结果推断,sufS601通过双重解码导致移码。