PMID:16094999
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Apirion, D and Watson, N (1975) Unaltered stability of newly synthesized RNA in strains of Escherichia coli missing a ribonuclease specific for double-stranded RNA. Mol. Gen. Genet. 136:317-26 |
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| Abstract |
Pairs of very closely related Escherichia coli strains were prepared, one having the wild-type allele for ribonuclease III, an enzyme which specifically degrades double-stranded RNA, and the other having a mutant RNase III allele. Growth and phage plating efficiency were compared in these strains. The RNase III+ strains grow better than the RNase III- strains and plate T7 and lambda phage better, but T4 plates with the same efficiency on both strains. On the other hand, the half lives of newly synthesized RNA as well as of functional beta-galactosidase mRNA are similar in both kind of strains. These two parameters, however, are significantly longer in both strains as compared to the original strain from which they were derived. Also, no difference in the differential induction of beta-galactosidase was observed between such strains. Thus, we have to conclude that either ribonuclease III does not play a significant role in the functioning and stability of newly synthesized mRNA, or that enough enzymatic activity was left, residual RNase III or some other enzyme to deal with double-stranded regions in the message. |
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| Keywords |
Enzyme Induction; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Mutation; RNA Stability; RNA, Bacterial/genetics; RNA, Double-Stranded/metabolism; RNA, Messenger/genetics; RNA, Messenger/metabolism; Ribonuclease III/genetics; Ribonuclease III/metabolism; beta-Galactosidase/genetics; beta-Galactosidase/metabolism |
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