Abstract:
:The transcription of a mouse genomic segment containing four tRNA genes, coding for a tRNA(Ala), a tRNA(Ile), a tRNA(Pro) and a tRNA(Lys), has been studied in a HeLa cell extract, demonstrating that differences among their transcriptional efficiencies are evident using as templates either the natural cluster or an equimolecular mixture of the four isolated genes. Nevertheless, the structure of the cluster influences the transcriptional efficiency of the clustered genes. In fact, a cis-acting inhibitory sequence has been located at about 400 bp downstream of the tRNA(Pro) coding sequence. Moreover rearrangements of the reciprocal position of the various tRNA genes within the cluster results in significant changes in the transcriptional rates of the individual transcriptional units.
journal_name
Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Russo T,Oliva A,Duilio A,Ammendola R,Costanzo F,Zannini M,Cimino Fdoi
10.1016/0006-291x(87)90524-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1987-12-31 00:00:00pages
1118-24issue
3eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
0006-291X(87)90524-9journal_volume
149pub_type
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