Assembly of the mitochondrial membrane system. CBP1, a yeast nuclear gene involved in 5' end processing of cytochrome b pre-mRNA - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 1984 Apr 25;259(8):4722-31.

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Comparative Study

Assembly of the mitochondrial membrane system. CBP1, a yeast nuclear gene involved in 5' end processing of cytochrome b pre-mRNA

C L Dieckmann et al. J Biol Chem. 1984.

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Abstract

Noncomplementing mutations in a nuclear gene (CBP1) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae D273-10B specifically affect the synthesis of cytochrome b, a mitochondrially encoded carrier of the respiratory chain. The nuclear mutants have been shown to have lowered levels of cytochrome b-specific transcripts. This phenotype is attributed to the inability of the mutant strains to process the 5' end of the cytochrome b pre-mRNA. Impairment of the processing function encoded by the CBP1 gene introduces an instability in the transcripts and promotes nucleolytic degradation. Mutations in CBP1 can be suppressed by a p- genome in which the 5' untranslated leader of the oli1 gene (subunit 9 of the ATPase) is fused near the 5' side of the cytochrome b coding sequence. The rearranged genome allows the cytochrome b gene to be transcribed from the oli1 promoter and results in novel cytochrome b transcripts with the 5' leader sequence of the oli1 mRNA. The presence of the oli1 leader sequence confers stability to the RNA and circumvents the CBP1 processing function.

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