STABILITY OF NUCLEAR-RNA IN MAMMALIAN-CELLS
STABILITY OF NUCLEAR-RNA IN MAMMALIAN-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(74)90444-6
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发表时间:
1974-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
MCCONKEY, EH
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作者:
BRANDHORST, BP;MCCONKEY, EH
The kinetics of entry of [3H]adenosine into ATP, cellular RNA, and nuclear RNA of mouse L cells were determined and analyzed. A molar accumulation curve for RNA was estimated from the specific radioactivities of RNA and ATP; this curve was resolved graphically into stable and unstable components. The stability of the unstable component (mostly heterogeneous nuclear RNA) was estimated by applying first-order decay analysis. Heterogeneous, nuclear RNA decays with an apparently uniform half-life of 23 minutes, considerably greater than some previous estimates. It is synthesized at an instantaneous rate of 5.4 × 10−2pg/cell per minute and reaches a steady-state level of 1.8 pg/cell in the nucleus, or 7% of the total cellular RNA. Only about 2% of the heterogeneous RNA synthesized in L cells enters polysomes as messenger RNA. The implications of these values are discussed with reference to similarly determined values for sea urchin embryos.