Contribution of polyadenylate sequences to the translational efficiency of globin messenger RNAs. |
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| Authors: | A Parets Soler D Gozalbo J Zueco R Sentandreu |
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| Affiliation: | Departament de Microbiologia, Facultat de Farmacia, Universitat de València, Spain. |
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| Abstract: | mRNAs from reticulocyte polysomes were fractionated by chromatography on poly(U)-Sepharose and thermal elution. The molar ratio of alpha- to beta-globin mRNA was found to be 2:1 and 1:1 respectively in short- and long-poly(A) size classes. Translational analyses indicated that the globin mRNAs containing long poly(A) tracts (with a mean length of about 70 nucleotides) directed protein synthesis with higher rates than did mRNA containing short poly(A) tracts (15-35 nucleotides). Experiments performed with sub-saturating mRNA concentrations showed that the digestion with RNAase H induced a decrease in the translational capacity of both globin mRNAs and an increase in the alpha- to beta-globin synthesis ratio. No correlation was observed between the size of the poly(A) tail in mRNA and the optimal K+ requirement for translation. |
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