Escherichia coli phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase operon: transcription studies of wild-type and mutated operons on multicopy plasmids
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 152 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.152.2.661-668.1982
Abstract
The construction of three lambda bacteriophages containing parts of the structural gene for threonyl-tRNA synthetase, thrS, and those for the two subunits of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetases, pheS and pheT, is described. These phages were used as hybridization probes to measure the in vivo levels of mRNA specific to these three genes. Plasmid pB1 carries the three genes thrS, pheS, and pheT, and strains carrying the plasmid show enhanced levels of mRNA corresponding to these genes. Although the steady-state levels of threonyl-tRNA synthetase and phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase produced by the presence of the plasmid differed by a factor of 10, their pulse-labeled mRNA levels were about the same. Mutant derivatives of pB1 were also analyzed. Firstly, a cis-acting insertion located before the structural genes for phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase caused a major decrease in both pheS and pheT mRNA. Secondly, mutations affecting either structural gene pheS or pheT caused a reduction in the mRNA levels for both pheS and pheT. This observation suggests that autoregulation plays a role in the expression of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase.Keywords
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