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The leader is a determinant of extreme mRNA stability in Free

Abstract

The gene encodes subtilisin, an extracellular proteolytic enzyme produced in stationary phase. The authors examined the stability of mRNA and leader– fusion mRNA. Both mRNAs were found to be unusually stable, with half-lives longer than 25 min, demonstrating that the leader contains a determinant for extreme mRNA stability. The half-lives were the same in growing and stationary-phase cells. This contrasts with the findings of O. Resnekov . (1990) [ 87, 8355–8359], which suggested a growth-phase-dependent mechanism for decay of mRNA. The discrepancy is explained by the techniques used. Substitution of two bases or deletion of 25 nucleotides in the leader led to a major difference in its predicted secondary structure and resulted in a fivefold reduction of the half-life of mRNA. The authors also determined the half-life of mRNA, which encodes α-amylase, another stationary-phase, excreted enzyme and found it to be around 5 min. This shows that extreme stability is not a general property of stationary-phase mRNAs encoding excreted enzymes.

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Keyword(s): amyE , mRNA secondary structure , stationary phase and subtilisin
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The aprE leader is a determinant of extreme mRNA stability in Bacillus subtilis
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