Figure 4.
Overexpression of tRNAiMet suppresses the GCN4 induction, but not translation start codon stringency defect, caused by the eIF2γ-I318M mutation. A GCN4-lacZ reporter (A) or (B) his4(UUG)-lacZ and HIS4(AUG)-lacZ reporters were introduced into yeast strains expressing the indicated WT or mutant forms of eIF2γ with or without overexpression of tRNAiMet (IMT4). Means and standard deviations of β-galactosidase activities were calculated for three independent transformants. Statistically significant differences in β-galactosidase activities for strains expressing mutant versus WT eIF2γ with empty vector (*) or for strains overexpressing tRNAiMet versus empty vector (#) are indicated and were calculated using a Student’s t-test with a P-value threshold of P = 0.05.