Abstract:
:The rapid development of the silk glands of Bombyx mori during the last larval instar shows two phases. During the first 4 days, in both the middle and posterior parts of the silk glands, the ribosomal machinery is assembled and the synthesis of housekeeping proteins starts. During the second phase (the last 4 days), the middle part of the gland synthesis approximately 45 mg of the silk protein sericin (31% serine) and the posterior part of the gland synthesizes approximately 130 mg of the silk protein fibroin (46% glycine, 29% alanine and 12% serine). Silk fibroin and sericin are detectable by the second day and represent 80 and 50% respectively of the total proteins produced at day 8 (refs 1--4). It is known that the tRNA population of the posterior part of the gland is quantitatively adapted to fibroin codon frequency during this period but little is known about the situation in the middle part except for the observation that it contains more tRNASer than does the posterior part. We show here that the two parts contain, and presumably use, different iso-accepting species of tRNASer, the middle part using tRNASer1, which recognizes AGU and AGC codons, and the posterior part using tRNASer2 which recognizes UCA. We also suggest that this differential adaptation of the tRNASer species is under transcriptional control as the two species are accumulated at different rates, but degraded at the same rate.
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Naturejournal_title
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Hentzen D,Chevallier A,Garel JPdoi
10.1038/290267a0subject
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1981-03-19 00:00:00pages
267-9issue
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0028-0836issn
1476-4687journal_volume
290pub_type
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