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Mol Cell Biol
1989 Mar 01;93:1069-82. doi: 10.1128/mcb.9.3.1069-1082.1989.
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Mutually exclusive synthetic pathways for sea urchin mitochondrial rRNA and mRNA.
Elliott DJ
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Jacobs HT
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The structure and abundance of mitochondrial transcripts in sea urchin embryos were investigated by a combination of RNA blot-hybridization, S1 mapping, and primer extension assays. Between the egg and blastula stages, the relative abundance of mitochondrial rRNAs declined slightly, while that of mitochondrial mRNAs increased up to 10-fold. Fine mapping of the termini of the rRNAs and of the adjacent transcripts indicated that, although they appeared to be butt-joined at their 5'' ends to the upstream transcripts, tRNA-Phe 5'' to the small subunit (12S) rRNA and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 mRNA 5'' to the large subunit (16S) rRNA, respectively, their 3'' ends were found to overlap the 5'' ends of the downstream transcripts. 12S rRNA was found to extend 7 to 13 nucleotides into the sequence of tRNA-Glu; 16S rRNA was shown to terminate 3 to 5 nucleotides inside the coding region of cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) and 8 to 10 nucleotides from the mapped 5'' end of COI mRNA. The rRNAs and the downstream transcripts must therefore be synthesized by distinct pathways, either by alternative processing of the same primary transcript(s) or by processing of different precursors. In either case, the events which select the ribosomal 3'' ends preclude the production of functional transcripts of the downstream genes from the same precursor molecule. No developmental alterations in transcript structure were detected. We propose that mitochondrial RNA levels are regulated in early development by the selection of alternate and mutually exclusive RNA-processing pathways.
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