Translational attenuation of ermC: a deletion analysis - PubMed (original) (raw)

PMID: 6810064
DOI: 10.1007/BF00331851

Translational attenuation of ermC: a deletion analysis

J Hahn et al. Mol Gen Genet. 1982.

Abstract

ermC is a plasmid gene which specifies resistance to macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B antibiotics. The product of ermC was previously shown to be an inducible rRNA methylase, which is regulated translationally, and a mechanism for this regulation, termed the translational attenuation model, has been proposed. This model postulates that alternative inactive and active conformational states of the ermC mRNA are modulated by erythromycin-induced ribosome-stalling during translation of a leader peptide. In the present study the translational attenuation model was tested by constructing a series of deletants missing the ermC promoter and portions of the regulatory (leading) region. In these mutants, ermC transcription is dependent on fusion to an upstream promoter. Depending on the terminus of each deletion within the regulatory region, determined by DNA sequencing, ermC expression is observed to be either high level and inducible (like the wild-type), high level and noninducible, or low level and noninducible. The translational attenuation model predicts that as the deletions extend deeper into the leader region, successively masking and unmasking sequences required for translation of the methylase, an alternation of high and low level methylase expression will be observed. These predictions are confirmed. Based on this and other information, the model is refined and extended, and both direct translational activation and kinetic trapping of a metastable active intermediate during transcription are proposed to explain basal synthesis of methylase and to rationalize the effects of certain regulatory mutants.

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Translational attenuation of ermC: a deletion analysis - PubMed (original) (raw)