Archibold E R, Williams L S
J Bacteriol. 1973 Jun;114(3):1007-13. doi: 10.1128/jb.114.3.1007-1013.1973.
The control of methionyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase (l-methionine: soluble RNA ligase [adenosine monophosphate]) was studied in methionyl-tRNA synthetase mutants of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. The results of activity determinations with crude extracts indicate that this enzyme of the E. coli mutant strain possessed a reduced affinity for methionine-tRNA, whereas this enzyme of the S. typhimurium mutant exhibited a decreased affinity for l-methionine. The differential rate of methionyl-tRNA synthetase formation in these two mutants was several-fold greater than that of the respective parental strains. On the other hand, the level of in vivo aminoacylation of methionine-tRNA was only about one-third that of the parent strains. These results suggest that aminoacylation of methionine-tRNA is a necessary step in repression control of methionyl-tRNA synthetase of both E. coli and S. typhimurium strains.
在大肠杆菌和鼠伤寒沙门氏菌的甲硫氨酰 - 转运核糖核酸(tRNA)合成酶(L - 甲硫氨酸:可溶性RNA连接酶[一磷酸腺苷])突变体中研究了该酶的调控。用粗提物进行活性测定的结果表明,大肠杆菌突变菌株的这种酶对甲硫氨酰 - tRNA的亲和力降低,而鼠伤寒沙门氏菌突变体的这种酶对L - 甲硫氨酸的亲和力降低。这两个突变体中甲硫氨酰 - tRNA合成酶形成的差异速率比各自亲本菌株的差异速率大几倍。另一方面,甲硫氨酰 - tRNA的体内氨酰化水平仅约为亲本菌株的三分之一。这些结果表明,甲硫氨酰 - tRNA的氨酰化是大肠杆菌和鼠伤寒沙门氏菌菌株中甲硫氨酰 - tRNA合成酶阻遏调控的必要步骤。