title: Heat-shock protein synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardi. Translational control at the level of initiation of a poly(A)-rich-RNA coded 22-KDa protein in a cell-free system.
abstract: The effect of temperature on the in vitro translation of control and heat-shock poly(A)-rich RNA, obtained from Chlamydomonas reinhardi cells, incubated for 2 h at 25 degrees C respectively, was studied using the wheat-germ translation system. Incubation of the cells at 42 degrees C induces the synthesis of RNAs coding for several heat-shock proteins, including a 22-kDa major polypeptide as well as several proteins of 45-94 kDa, as demonstrated by run-off translation of polyribosomes isolated from intact cells. However, the high-molecular-mass heat-shock proteins are poorly translated in the wheat-germ system. The poly(A)-rich RNA coding for the 22-kDa heat-induced polypeptide has an apparent sedimentation coefficient higher than that expected from the molecular mass of its translation product, and was preferentially translated in vitro at temperatures above 31 degrees C as compared with pre-existing RNAs. Raising the temperature of translation, slightly inhibited (10%) the runoff translation of polyribosomes isolated from intact cells. However, when initiation was carried out in vitro for a short time at increasing temperatures and translation continued at 25 degrees C in the presence of aurintricarboxylic acid, the 22-kDa heat-shock polypeptides was preferentially translated. Aurintricarboxylic acid did not significantly inhibit incorporation of [35S]methionine when added to polyribosomes isolated from control or heat-shocked cells. From the above data we conclude that the translation of the 22-kDa heat-shock protein is controlled in vitro at the initiation level.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kloppstech
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ohad
mesh_terms: D002474:Cell-Free System; D002696:Chlamydomonas / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D010442:Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational; D011061:Poly A / Q000502:physiology*; D011132:Polyribosomes / Q000378:metabolism; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000502:physiology*; D013696:Temperature; D014908:Triticum
chemical_list: D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011061:Poly A