Abstract
Evidence is presented that E. coli contains a mechanism for selective degradation of abnormal proteins. Unfinished polypeptides containing puromycin, proteins containing frequent errors in translation, such as those synthesized by strains containing a ram mutation or a missense suppressor, and proteins containing amino-acid analogs were degraded more rapidly than were normal cell proteins. The degradation of analog- or puromycin-containing proteins appears to be an energy-dependent process. Unlike normal proteins, such proteins were degraded at similar rates by growing and by nongrowing cells.
Keywords: protein breakdown, protein structure, mistranslation, amino acid analogs, puromycin
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