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. 1993 May 25;21(10):2301–2308. doi: 10.1093/nar/21.10.2301

Interaction of proteins with the mRNA for ribosomal protein L1 in Xenopus: structural characterization of in vivo complexes and identification of proteins that bind in vitro to its 5'UTR.

B Cardinali 1, M Di Cristina 1, P Pierandrei-Amaldi 1
PMCID: PMC309524  PMID: 8506127

Abstract

Xenopus r-protein mRNAs are known to be coordinately regulated at the translational level. To find out if RNA/protein interactions are involved in this control mechanism, we have characterized the particles containing the translationally repressed rp-mRNA and we have investigated the proteins that specifically bind to this type of mRNA. By sedimentation analysis and isopycnic centrifugation we have found that the repressed rp-mRNAs are assembled in slow sedimenting complexes where the RNA is prevalent over the protein mass (2.3 to 1). This composition is maintained also after in vitro reconstitution of the particle. We carried out also a detailed analysis of in vitro RNA/protein complex formation by focusing our attention on the 5'UTR, very similar in different rp-mRNAs and important in the translational regulation. We describe specific interactions of L1 mRNA with four proteins. The binding site of two of them, 57 kD and 47 kD, is in the typical pyrimidine sequence at the 5' end and is position dependent. Proteins of the same size interact also with the analogous region of r-protein S1 and L14 mRNA, not with unrelated RNAs. Binding of two other proteins, 31 kD and 24 kD, in the downstream region of the 5'UTR was also observed. The most evident 57 kD protein has been partially purified. Although the binding of these proteins to the r-protein mRNA 5'UTR is specific, their involvement in the translation regulation remains to be proved.

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