Levin D H, Kyner D, Acs G
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1972 May;69(5):1234-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.69.5.1234.
Previous data demonstrated that reovirus mRNA, synthesized in vitro with the particulate RNA transcriptase of reovirus cores, efficiently directs the synthesis of polypeptides in vitro. The present studies indicate that all of the three size classes of reovirus mRNA produced in vitro can form protein initiation complexes with rat liver [(36)S]Met-tRNA(F) and incubated 40S and 60S ribosomal subunits, which had been washed in 0.5 M KCl of mouse fibroblast L-929 cells. Mild prior treatment of the mRNA with HCHO was required to expose the initiator region. The initiation complex reacted quantitatively with puromycin to form a puromycin peptide, whose electrophoretic properties were identical to methionyl-puromycin formed in response to poly(A,G,U) or the initiator codon AUG. The complex was relatively stable and specific for [(35)S]Met-tRNA(F); rat liver [(35)S]Met-tRNA(M) was unreactive unless the supernatant factors EF T(1) and EF T(2) were also present. However, the addition of fusidic acid, at a concentration that did not affect complex formation with [(35)S]Met-tRNA(F), completely inhibited Met-tRNA(M) utilization. Exogenous ribosomal factors and GTP were not required unless the separated 40S and 60S subunits were further treated with 1 M KCl. The data suggest that reovirus mRNA contains AUG initiator codons that form a complex with Met-tRNA(F) at a puromycin-reactive site on ribosomes.
先前的数据表明,用呼肠孤病毒核心的颗粒状RNA转录酶在体外合成的呼肠孤病毒mRNA能在体外有效地指导多肽的合成。目前的研究表明,体外产生的所有三种大小类别的呼肠孤病毒mRNA都能与大鼠肝脏[(36)S]甲硫氨酰 - tRNA(F)以及经小鼠成纤维细胞L - 929细胞的0.5M KCl洗涤过的40S和60S核糖体亚基形成蛋白质起始复合物。mRNA需先用甲醛进行温和预处理以暴露起始区域。起始复合物与嘌呤霉素定量反应形成嘌呤霉素肽,其电泳性质与响应聚(A,G,U)或起始密码子AUG形成的甲硫氨酰 - 嘌呤霉素相同。该复合物相对稳定且对[(35)S]甲硫氨酰 - tRNA(F)具有特异性;大鼠肝脏[(35)S]甲硫氨酰 - tRNA(M)无反应,除非还存在上清液因子EF T(1)和EF T(2)。然而,添加浓度不影响与[(35)S]甲硫氨酰 - tRNA(F)形成复合物的夫西地酸,会完全抑制甲硫氨酰 - tRNA(M)的利用。除非分离的40S和60S亚基进一步用1M KCl处理,否则不需要外源核糖体因子和GTP。数据表明,呼肠孤病毒mRNA含有AUG起始密码子,这些密码子在核糖体上的嘌呤霉素反应位点与甲硫氨酰 - tRNA(F)形成复合物。