Autoregulation of tubulin expression is achieved through specific degradation of polysomal tubulin mRNAs
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Autoregulation of tubulin expression is achieved through specific degradation of polysomal tubulin mRNAs
Abstract
We have utilized protein synthesis inhibitors to investigate the autoregulatory mechanism that uses the concentration of unpolymerized tubulin subunits to specify tubulin mRNA content in animal cells. Puromycin and pactamycin, both of which remove RNAs from polysomes, completely unlink tubulin RNA content from the level of free subunits, whereas pretreatment of cells with cycloheximide, which traps mRNAs onto stalled polyribosomes, enhances the specific degradation of tubulin RNAs in response to increases in the subunit content. Moreover, in the absence of protein synthesis inhibitors, the tubulin RNAs that are lost from cells with elevated free tubulin subunit levels are those that are associated with polyribosomes. Further, beta-tubulin mRNAs encoding a truncated translation product of only 26 amino acids (and that cannot be polyribosomal) are not substrates for autoregulation. We conclude that autoregulation of tubulin synthesis is achieved by specifically altering the stability of tubulin RNAs that are bound to polyribosomes.
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