Eukaryotic Trna Genes (Hybrid Gene/Insertion Mutants/Nuclear Microinjection/RNA Polymerase HI Transcription) G
Proc. NatL Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 79, pp. 1921-1925, March 1982 Genetics Relationship between the two components of the split promoter of eukaryotic tRNA genes (hybrid gene/insertion mutants/nuclear microinjection/RNA polymerase HI transcription) G. CILIBERTO*, C. TRABONI*, AND R. CORTESE European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Postfach 102209, 6900 Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany Communicated by Sydney Brenner, October 21, 1981 ABSTRACT Plasmids containing eukaryotic tRNA genes are stitute the split promoter of a tDNAPro from Caenorhabditis faithfully transcribed in the nucleus of Xenopus loevis oocytes elegans (6) and of a tDNAMet from Xenopus laevis (5). [Cortese, R., Melton, D. A., Tranquilla, T. & Smith, J. D. (1978) In the light of this idea one can recognize at least two other Nucleic Acids Res. 5, 4593-4611]. It has been established that two structural features that must be common to all tRNA genes. One separated regions within the coding sequence of a tRNA gene are is the physical distance between the two invariant regions: this essential and sufficient for promotion oftranscription [Hofstetter, is about 40 nucleotides in almost all tRNAs, with the exception H., Kressmann, A. & Birnstiel, M. L. (1981) Cell 24, 573-585; of those tRNA genes that contain introns. The other common Ciliberto, G., Castagnoli, L., Melton, D. A. & Cortese, R. (1982) feature is the Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79, 1195-1199]. We have constructed overall partial self-complementarity ofthe 5' and a hybrid tRNA gene containing one essential region from tDNAIeU 3' halves ofa tRNA molecule, which confers on the correspond- and the other from tDNAPrO, both from Caenorhabditis elegans.
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