Control of messenger RNA concentration by differential cytoplasmic half-life. Adenovirus messenger RNAs from transcription units 1A and 1B.
Control of messenger RNA concentration by differential cytoplasmic half-life. Adenovirus messenger RNAs from transcription units 1A and 1B.
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通过不同的细胞质半衰期控制信使 RNA 浓度。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(81)90537-4
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
DarnellJr,JE
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作者:
Wilson,MC;DarnellJr,JE
The basis for the change in abundance of several specific viral messenger RNAs has been examined during the adenovirus 2 lytic cycle. The two independent transcription units, 1A and 1B, at the left end of the viral genome produce groups of 5′ and 3′ co-terminal mRNAs which vary in relative cytoplasmic concentration at different times after infection. The formation of nuclear polyadenylated, spliced molecules from these transcription units, however, does not appear to vary commensurate with the cytoplasmic mRNA changes. All forms of the 1A and 1B mRNAs could be found as nuclear polyadenylated molecules in similar relative amounts at all times. By measuring the rate of accumulation of labeled mRNA to maximal levels, it was determined that early during infection these mRNAs have short cytoplasmic half-lives, on the order of six to ten minutes. After DNA replication there is an approximately tenfold increase in the stability of the two early mRNAs from region 1A and the shorter mRNA from the 1B region, 1B1040. The longer mRNA from region 1B, 1B2300, does not have an increased cytoplasmic half-life. Because of the changing half-lives the relative steady-state abundance of the two 1B mRNAs is reversed late in infection. Increased stability is also suggested as the cause of the appearance of the 1A500mRNA late in infection. This mRNA is not detected at early times unless protein synthesis is inhibited with cycloheximide. These results point to the importance of the control of mRNA stability, requiring both continued RNA and protein synthesis, for the regulated expression of some genes in eukaryotes.