Identification of a precursor molecular for the RNA moiety of the processing enzyme RNase P.
AUTOR(ES)
Gurevitz, M
RESUMO
A precursor molecule for 10Sb (M1) RNA, the RNA moiety of the RNA processing enzyme ribonuclease P (EC 3.1.26.5), is accumulated transiently in an Escherichia coli strain containing a plasmid that carries the 10Sb RNA gene. The same RNA precursor molecule is accumulated, in relatively large quantities, in a temperature-sensitive RNase E- mutant at the nonpermissive temperature. The RNA precursor includes 10Sb RNA and an extra 3' fragment that contains a termination stem and loop. It can be processed in vitro to a molecule the size of 10Sb RNA. None of the four endoribonucleases of E. coli--RNase III, RNase E, RNase F, or RNase P--takes part in this cleavage reaction. Therefore, we suggest that the processing of the precursor-10Sb RNA to 10Sb RNA is carried out by a thus-far unidentified endoribonuclease. The accumulation of a RNA molecule in a RNase E- mutant that does not contain a cleavage site for RNase E has been encountered previously and can be explained by assuming the existence of a RNA processing complex in the E. coli cell.
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