Nascent peptide as sole attachment of polysomes to membranes in bacteria.
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 75 (2) , 814-817
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.75.2.814
Abstract
When membrane-polysome complexes from Escherichia coli were treated with puromycin, at various Mg2+ and K+ concentrations, the bulk of the ribosomes were released from the membrane. Many released ribosomes remained attached to mRNA (pseudopolysomes). Ribosomes are probably attached to the membrane in bacteria solely by their nascent chain. Without a direct attachment the conformational changes associated with chain elongation on the ribosome cannot force the growing chain through the membrane, and so alternative sources of energy for the transfer must be considered.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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