Affiliation:
1. Department of Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
Abstract
A mutant strain AA-522, temperature-sensitive for protein synthesis, was isolated from a stringent strain (CP-78) of
Escherichia coli
K-12. The mutant strain has a relaxed phenotype at the nonpermissive growth temperature. Protein synthesis stops completely at 42 C, whereas the rate of ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis is maintained at 20% of the 30 C rate. Sucrose-gradient centrifugation analysis of RNA-containing particles formed at 42 C indicated the presence of “relaxed particles.” These particles possess 16
S
and 23
S
RNA and are precursors to normal 50
S
and 30
S
ribosomal subunits. A search for the temperature-sensitive protein responsible for the halt in protein synthesis implicated phenylalanyl transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase. Essentially no enzyme activity is detected in vitro at 30 or 40 C. Analysis of phenylalanyl tRNA synthetase activity in revertants of strain AA-522 indicated the presence of intragenic suppressor mutations. Revertants of strain AA-522 analyzed for the relaxed response at 42 C were all stringent; strain AA-522 was stringent at 30 C. These data indicate that a single mutation in phenylalanyl tRNA synthetase is responsible for both a block in protein synthesis and the relaxed phenotype at 42 C.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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