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A mutation in the signal recognition particle 7S RNA of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica preferentially affects synthesis of the alkaline extracellular protease: in vivo evidence for translational arrest.

A mutation in the signal recognition particle 7S RNA of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica... Replacement of the signal recognition particle (SRP) 7S gene (SCR1) on a replicating plasmid with scr1-1 (G to A at 129 and A to T at 131 in the consensus sequence -GNAR- in the loop of domain III) resulted in temperature sensitivity for growth of cells in which both chromosomal SRP 7S RNA genes were deleted. Pulse-chase immunoprecipitation experiments were done after a shift to non-permissive temperature using the major secreted protein the alkaline extracellular protease (AEP) as a reporter molecule. No untranslocated AEP precursor was detected in a strain with scr1-1 on a plasmid, but the amount of the largest AEP precursor (55 kD) immunoprecipitated as a percentage of total protein synthesized was reduced 68% compared to an isogenic strain with SCR1 on the plasmid. The possibility that an untranslocated precursor was synthesized but not detected because of instability was largely eliminated by detection of a 53-kD untranslocated precursor of a mutated AEP (P17M; methionine replaced proline in the second position of the pro-peptide) which chased to the 55-kD translocated AEP precursor. Thus, SRP has a role in the biosynthesis of AEP. Possibly, the scr1-1 mutation does not affect signal recognition or translational arrest but instead results in maintenance of translational arrest of AEP synthesis. The results also suggest that AEP can be translocated in vivo either co-translationally in which SRP is at least involved in biosynthesis or posttranslationally without SRP involvement. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Cell Biology Rockefeller University Press

A mutation in the signal recognition particle 7S RNA of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica preferentially affects synthesis of the alkaline extracellular protease: in vivo evidence for translational arrest.

The Journal of Cell Biology , Volume 116 (3): 605 – Feb 1, 1992

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Rockefeller University Press
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© 1992 Rockefeller University Press
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0021-9525
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1540-8140
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10.1083/jcb.116.3.605
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Abstract

Replacement of the signal recognition particle (SRP) 7S gene (SCR1) on a replicating plasmid with scr1-1 (G to A at 129 and A to T at 131 in the consensus sequence -GNAR- in the loop of domain III) resulted in temperature sensitivity for growth of cells in which both chromosomal SRP 7S RNA genes were deleted. Pulse-chase immunoprecipitation experiments were done after a shift to non-permissive temperature using the major secreted protein the alkaline extracellular protease (AEP) as a reporter molecule. No untranslocated AEP precursor was detected in a strain with scr1-1 on a plasmid, but the amount of the largest AEP precursor (55 kD) immunoprecipitated as a percentage of total protein synthesized was reduced 68% compared to an isogenic strain with SCR1 on the plasmid. The possibility that an untranslocated precursor was synthesized but not detected because of instability was largely eliminated by detection of a 53-kD untranslocated precursor of a mutated AEP (P17M; methionine replaced proline in the second position of the pro-peptide) which chased to the 55-kD translocated AEP precursor. Thus, SRP has a role in the biosynthesis of AEP. Possibly, the scr1-1 mutation does not affect signal recognition or translational arrest but instead results in maintenance of translational arrest of AEP synthesis. The results also suggest that AEP can be translocated in vivo either co-translationally in which SRP is at least involved in biosynthesis or posttranslationally without SRP involvement.

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The Journal of Cell BiologyRockefeller University Press

Published: Feb 1, 1992

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