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Role of mRNA competition in regulating translation: further characterization of mRNA discriminatory initiation factors

B K Ray et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Feb.

Abstract

Host and reovirus mRNAs compete with one another for translation in infected cells. Kinetic analysis has suggested that the site of competition is a message discriminatory initiation factor which must bind to the mRNA before it can interact with the 40S ribosomal subunit. The present communication describes an in vitro assay which can detect message discriminatory activities. A competitive situation is established by using reovirus and globin mRNAs, and then the specificity with which this competition is relieved by added components is measured. Among the various initiation factors surveyed with this assay, two have the properties expected of the mRNA discriminatory factor. These are eukaryotic initiation factor 4A and a "cap binding protein" complex. Inasmuch as the cap binding protein complex contains a subunit similar or identical to the initiation factor eIF-4A, it seems likely that only one form of the latter factor may be active in vivo. In vitro, both factors relieve competition among both capped and uncapped reovirus mRNAs according to similar hierarchies. These results suggest that some feature other than the m7G cap, such as nucleotide sequence or secondary structure, is recognized by the discriminatory factor.

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