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. 1982 Dec;79(23):7087–7091. doi: 10.1073/pnas.79.23.7087

Polyamine requirement for efficient translation of amber codons in vivo.

H Tabor, C W Tabor
PMCID: PMC347283  PMID: 6760189

Abstract

Multiplication of several amber mutants of bacteriophage T7 was decreased in two polyamine-deficient mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 carrying amber suppressors, relative to the multiplication of wild type bacteriophage T7 in the same hosts. In contrast the same T7 amber bacteriophages multiplied well in these strains when supplemented with polyamines. The requirement for polyamines for optimal translation of amber codons in vivo was confirmed by showing that infection of polyamine-depleted E. coli with bacteriophage T7 carrying an amber mutation in gene 1 resulted in an increased accumulation of the amber fragment of the gene 1 protein and a decreased accumulation of the full-length gene 1 protein compared with infection of an amine-supplemented culture. These results indicate that one important function of polyamines in vivo is concerned with protein translation and the protein-synthesizing ribosomal complex.

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