Factors governing the expression of a bacterial gene in mammalian cells.
Factors governing the expression of a bacterial gene in mammalian cells.
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控制哺乳动物细胞中细菌基因表达的因素。
DOI:
10.1128/mcb.1.5.449-459.1981
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Berg,P
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作者:
Mulligan,RC;Berg,P
Cultured monkey kidney cells transfected with simian virus 40 (SV40)-pBR322–derived deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vectors containing theEscherichia coligene (Ecogpt, orgpt) coding for the enzyme xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (XGPRT) synthesize the bacterial enzyme. This paper describes the structure of the messenger ribonucleic acids (mRNA's) formed during the expression ofgptand an unexpected feature of the nucleotide sequence in thegptDNA segment. Analyses of thegpt-specific mRNA's produced during infection of CV1 cells indicate that in addition to the mRNA's expected on the basis of known simian virus 40 RNA splicing patterns, there is a novel SV40-gpthybrid mRNA. The novel mRNA contains an SV40 leader segment spliced to RNA sequences transcribed from the bacterial DNA segment. The sequence of the 5′-proximal 345 nucleotides of thegptDNA segment indicates that the only open translation phase begins with an AUG about 200 nucleotides from the end of thegptDNA. Two additional AUGs as well as translation terminator codons in all three phases precede the XGPRT initiator codon. Deletion of the two that are upstream of the putative start codon increases the level of XGPRT production in transfected cells; deletion of sequences that contain the proposed XGPRT initiator AUG abolishes enzyme production. Based on the location of the XGPRT coding sequence in the recombinants and the structure of the mRNA's, we infer that the bacterial enzyme can be translated from an initiator AUG that is 400 to 800 nucleotides from the 5′ terminus of the mRNA and preceded by two to six AUG triplets.