title: Nucleotide sequences involved in bacteriophage T4 gene 32 translational self-regulation.
abstract: We have determined the nucleotide sequence of a cloned segment of the bacteriophage T4D chromosome, which contains the regulatory sequences and the structural gene (gene 32) for the single-stranded DNA binding protein (gp32). The amino acid sequence predicted by translation of the structural gene agrees well with that published for gp32 [Williams, K. R., Lo-Presti, M. B., Setoguchi, M. & Konigsberg, W. H. (1980) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, 4614-4617]. To localize the nucleotide sequence involved in translational self-regulation of gene 32, we have constructed a series of plasmids in which gene 32 is fused to an amino-terminal deletion mutant of the beta-galactosidase gene of Escherichia coli. Expression of a beta-galactosidase fusion protein that contains only the first seven amino acids of gp32 is still repressed by gp32. The ribosomal binding site of gene 32 is flanked by a repetitive A+T-rich sequence. Preferential and cooperative binding of gp32 to this region of its mRNA could inhibit translation initiation and, thus, would account for the autoregulation.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000235:genetics; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D005814:Genes, Viral; D010442:Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; C060035:gp32 protein, Enterobacteria phage T4; C027729:helix-destabilizing proteins; D004265:DNA Helicases