title: Codon context effect in virus translational readthrough. A study in vitro of the determinants of TMV and Mo-MuLV amber suppression.
abstract: To assess the role of codon context on the efficiency of eukaryotic suppression of termination codons, we have compared, in a rabbit cell-free translation system, the readthrough efficiency related to two synthetic transcripts differing by the codon context around an amber codon. The codon contexts are derived from tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and Moloney murine leukemia virus (Mo-MuLV) RNAs. The Mo-MuLV-like codon context does not promote suppression. Substituting TMV-derived triplets in the Mo-MuLV-like codon context shows that the two codons downstream from the TMV UAG signal are important determinants of suppression, as recently demonstrated in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Institut Jacques Monod Paris, France.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Valle
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Drugeon
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Devignes-Morch
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Legocki
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Haenni
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002474:Cell-Free System; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003062:Codon; D004279:DNA, Viral; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005813:Genes, Synthetic; D009052:Leukemia Virus, Murine / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012367:RNA, Viral; D011817:Rabbits; D013728:Terminator Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D014027:Tobacco Mosaic Virus / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D004279:DNA, Viral; D012367:RNA, Viral; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase