Abstract
Nonsense suppressors were obtained in a haploid yeast strain containing eight nutritional mutations, that are assumed to be amber or ochre, and the cyc1–179 amber mutation that has a UAG codon corresponding to position 9 in iso-1-cytochrome c. Previous studies established that the biosynthesis and function of iso-1-cytochrome c is compatible with replacements at position 9 of amino acids having widely different structures (Stewart and Sherman 1972). UV-induced revertants, selected on media requiring the reversion of one or two of the amber nutritional markers, were presumed to contain a suppressor if there was the unselected reversion of at least one other marker. The 1088 suppressors that were isolated could be divided into 78 phenotypic classes. Only 43 suppressors of three classes caused the production of more than 50% of the normal amount of iso-1-cytochrome c in the cyc1–179 strain. Genetic analyses indicated that all of these highly efficient amber suppressors are allelic to one or another of the eight suppressors which cause the insertion of tyrosine at ochre (UAA) codons (Gilmore, Stewart and Sherman 1971). Furthermore, only tyrosine has been identified at position 9 in iso-1-cytochrome c in cyc1–179 strains suppressed with these efficient amber suppressors.
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