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SUBMITTER: Hong SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2040454 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hong Sue-Jean SJ Lessner Faith H FH Mahen Elisabeth M EM Keiler Kenneth C KC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20071015 43
The tmRNA-SmpB system releases ribosomes stalled on truncated mRNAs and tags the nascent polypeptides to target them for proteolysis. In many species, mutations that disrupt tmRNA activity cause defects in growth or development. In Caulobacter crescentus cells lacking tmRNA activity there is a delay in the initiation of DNA replication, which disrupts the cell cycle. To understand the molecular basis for this phenotype, 73 C. crescentus proteins were identified that are tagged by tmRNA under nor ...[more]