Translational coupling between the ilvD and ilvA genes of Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Harms, E
RESUMO
The hypothesis that translation of the ilvD and ilvA genes of Escherichia coli may be linked has been examined in strains in which lacZ-ilvD protein fusions are translated in all three reading frames with respect to ilvD. In these strains, the nucleotide sequence was altered to obtain premature termination of ilvD translation, and in one strain translation termination of ilvD DNA occurred two bases downstream of the ilvA initiation codon. In the wild-type strain, the ilvD translation termination site was located two bases upstream of the ilvA start codon. In each of the mutant strains, expression of ilvA, as determined by the level of threonine deaminase activity, was strikingly lower than in the wild-type strain. The data suggest that expression of ilvD and ilvA is translationally coupled. By inserting a promoterless cat gene downstream of ilvA, it was shown that the differences in enzyme activity were not the result of differences in the amount of ilvA mRNA produced.
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