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Abstract
The effects of the transcription terminators to and tfd on the overall high-level expression of a human interferon-beta gene (IFN-beta) in Escherichia coli hosts were compared. Deletion mapping shows that mRNA lability is caused by sequences at or near the lambda terminator to stem-loop structure. Extensive RNA secondary structure in this region indicates a potential RNase III cleavage/binding site. In RNase III- E. coli hosts, IFN-beta synthesis is indeed considerably enhanced. The bacteriophage tfd terminator does not confer this mRNA labilization phenomenon. In all cases, RNA level and stability correlate with the level of IFN-beta synthesized in the cell. In the system described, ongoing translation stabilizes mRNA only moderately.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 2977353 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(88)90133-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gene ISSN: 0378-1119 Impact factor: 3.688