Abstract
The steady-state growth rate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was varied by growing the cells in different media. The total amount of ribonucleic acid (RNA) per cell was found to decrease as a nonlinear function of decreasing growh rate. The RNA from cells growing in different media was analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Although the amounts of both ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA decreased with decreasing growth rate, the ratio of ribosomal to transfer RNA was not constant. As the growth rate was reduced the ribosomal RNA fraction decreased slightly, whereas the transfer RNA fraction increased slightly. Thus the levels of ribosomal and transfer RNA were regulated to similar yet different extents. The levels of the different ribosomal RNA species were more closely coordinated. At all growth rates the ribosomal RNAs (including 5S RNA) were present in equimolar amounts. The rate of protein synthesis in yeast cells also decreased with decreasing growth rate. The low rates of protein synthesis did not appear to be due to limiting numbers of ribosomes or transfer RNA molecules.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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