ERYTHROMYCIN, CARBOMYCIN, AND SPIRAMYCIN INHIBIT PROTEIN-SYNTHESIS BY STIMULATING THE DISSOCIATION OF PEPTIDYL-TRANSFER RNA FROM RIBOSOMES
ERYTHROMYCIN, CARBOMYCIN, AND SPIRAMYCIN INHIBIT PROTEIN-SYNTHESIS BY STIMULATING THE DISSOCIATION OF PEPTIDYL-TRANSFER RNA FROM RIBOSOMES
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DOI:
10.1128/aac.21.5.811
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
OTTO, DP
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作者:
MENNINGER, JR;OTTO, DP
In mutant Escherichia coli with temperature-sensitive peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase (aminoacyl-tRNA hydrolase; EC 3.1.1.29), peptidyl-tRNA accumulates at the nonpermissive temperature (40.degree. C) and the cells die. These consequences of high temperature were enhanced if the cells were first treated with erythromycin, carbomycin or spiramycin at doses sufficient to inhibit protein synthesis in wild-type cells but not sufficient to kill mutant or wild-type cells at the permissive temperature (30.degree. C). Since peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase in the mutant cells is inactivated rapidly and irreversibly at 40.degree. C, the enhanced accumulation of peptidyl-tRNA and killing were the result of enhanced dissociation, stimulated by the antibiotics, of peptidyl-tRNA from ribosomes. The implications of these findings for inhibition of cell growth and protein synthesis are discussed. Certain alternative interpretations are shown to be inconsistent with the relevant data. Previous conflicting observations on the effects of macrolide antibiotics are explained in terms of these observations. Evidently, erythromycin, carbomycin and spiramycin (and probably all macrolides) have as a primary mechanism of action the stimulation of dissociation of peptidyl-tRNA from ribosomes, probably during translocation.