• 대한수의학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.772-777
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• 1999

The uncaped genomic RNA of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) initiates translation by recruitment of eukaryotic translation initiation factors at the internal ribosome entry site (IRES). N-terminal protease ($N^{pro}$) is the first translation product of the open reading frame (ORF). By using the vaccinia virus SP6 RNA polymerase transient expression system, we showed previously that deletion of $N^{pro}$ region reduced translation by 21%. To better understand the biological significance of $N^{pro}$ for translation, we carried out a mutational analysis of the $N^{pro}$ region of BVDV cloned in the intercistronic region of a bicistronic reporter plasmid. We constructed a bicistronic expression vector in which the entire 5 UTR and the mutated $N^{pro}$ region (${\Delta}386-901$, ${\Delta}415-901$ and ${\Delta}657-901$) was cloned between two reporter genes, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) and luciferase (LUC). In vivo translation analyses showed that $N^{pro}$ region was dispensible for efficient translation. The results indicate that the $N^{pro}$ region is not essential for BVDV RNA translation and the 3' boundary of BVDV IRES is expanded into $N^{pro}$ region, suggesting that $N^{pro}$ may not play a major role in BVDV replication.

• BMB Reports
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2005

Functional protein of MB78 bacteriophage having apparent molecular weight of 22 kDa is expressed from 1.7 kb HindIII G fragment. The nucleotide sequence of this fragment showed two open reading frames of 222 and 196 codons in tail-to-tail orientation separated by a 62-nucleotide intercistronic region. The ORF of 22 kDa protein is present in opposite orientation, i.e. in the complementary strand, preceded by a strong ribosomal binding site and a promoter sequence. Another ORF started from the beginning of the fragment whose promoter region and translational start site lies in the 0.45 kb HincII U fragment which is located next to the HindIII G fragment, that has the sequence for DNA bending. 3' end of the fragment has high sequence homology to the EaA and EaI proteins of bacteriophage P22, a close relative of MB78 phage.

• Journal of Life Science
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.120-125
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• 2001

The pyrR gene of the pyrimidine biosynthesis (pyr) operon of the thermophile Bacillus caldolyticus, encoding a uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (UPRTase), turned to rely as a pyr operon regulator. It has been proposed that PyrR mediates transcriptional termination-antitermination at three intercistronic regions of the par operon (S.-Y Ghim and J. Neuhard, J. Bacteriol.,176, 3698-3707, 1994). In this research, a plasmid carrying the pyrR region of B. caldolyticus could restore a pyrimidine regulation in a pyrR mutant of B. subtilis. Expression of pyrR was found to increase 6-7 fold during pyrimidine starvation. Additionally, a highly conserved nucleotide sequence which may constitute the binding site for a PyrR protein (PyrR-binding loop) in transcript was staggested. Alternative antiterminator and terminator structures involving three conserved motifs in front of the pyrR, pyrP and pyrB genes, respectively, are proposed to account for the observed regulation pattern.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.120-125
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• 1994

Vibrio meschnikovii 균주 RH530의 trpB. trpA 및 3‘ trpC(F) 유전자를 대장균에 클로닝하여 염기서열을 결정하였다. trpB 및 trpA 유전자는 각각 391 및 268 아미노산을 coding할 수 있는 1,173 bp 및 804 bp의 open reading frame을 가졌다. trpB 및 trpA 유전자는 일반적인 ribosome-binding sequence를 가졌으며 1개의 nucleotide만큼 중복되어 있었다. 이는 이들 두 유전자가 trinslation 단계에서 연결되어 있음을 의미한다. trpB 유전자의 개시토돈에서 115 nucleotide 위에 trpC(F)와 trpF의 융합체인 trpC(F)의 3’-말단부위의 불완전한 open reading frame의 존재 하였다. V. metschnikovil RH530의 TrpB, TrpA 및 TrpC(F)의 아미노산 서열은 V. parahaemolyticus의 그것들과 각각 64.2%, 82.4%, 73.7%: S. typhimurium과 58.7%, 72.3%, 54.9%: B. lactoermentum과 42.6%, 54.1%, 12.5%의 유사성을 보였다. 이는 TrpB가 TrpA보다 서열이 잘 보존되어 있음을 나타내며 TrpC(F)는 다를 두 polypeptide에 비해서 서열의 변이가 큼을 나타낸다. 이들 유전자들의 구조, 특히 trpC(F)와 trpB 사이의 noncoding 부위는 Enterobacteriaceae 비롯한 다를 개체들과는 다른 특징을 보였다.