Abstract
By using sites for the restriction nuclease Hpa II, the information for the anticodon stem and loop of an altered Su+2 amber suppressor tRNA (a mutant of tRNAGln) has been transplanted to a specially prepared tRNATrp gene, which lacks it homologous anticodon stem and loop sequence. The resulting tRNA gene was cloned under lac operator-promoter control. The result is a functional, hybrid, amber-suppressor tRNA that can exhibit a moderately high efficiency in translation. It appears less efficient, however, than Su+7 tRNA, the amber suppressor that results from a direct anticodon mutation in tRNATrp. As judged by its suppressor spectrum, which is almost identical to the spectra of Su+2, and Su+7, the recomposed tRNA inserts glutamine at amber sites. This experiment is the prototype of a series of construction that examine the role of the nucleotides in the anticodon region.
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