Mutational alterations of tryptophan-specific transfer RNA that generate translation suppressors of the UAA, UAG and UGA nonsense codons |
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Authors: | L Soll |
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Institution: | Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass., U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The recessive lethal amber suppressor su+7(UAG-1) in Escherichia coli inserts glutamine in response to the UAG codon. The genetic analysis presented in this paper shows that the su?7 precursor allele can give rise to suppressors of the UGA codon as well as of the UAG codon. This observation suggests that the su?7 gene normally codes for transfer RNATrp, a tRNA whose anticodon can be modified by single base changes to forms that can translate either UAG or UGA. The chemical findings presented in the accompanying paper (Yaniv et al., 1974) are wholly in accord with this interpretation. Thus, a single base substitution in the anticodon sequence of a tRNA can affect both the coding specificity of the molecule and also the amino acid acceptor specificity. |
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