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Effect of the antibiotic purpuromycin on cell-free protein-synthesizing systems.


ABSTRACT: Purpuromycin, an antibiotic isolated from the culture broth of Actinoplanes ianthinogenes, which is very active against Gram-positive bacteria and fungi, inhibits protein synthesis in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell-free systems. The ID50 was 9 microM with the endogenous mRNA-directed rabbit reticulocyte lysate, 17 microM with a poly(U)-directed system from Escherichia coli and 69 microM with a poly(U)-directed system from Artemia salina cysts. Of the three steps of elongation, purpuromycin does not affect the peptidyl-transferase reaction, inhibits the elongation factor 1 (EF-1) dependent binding of phenylalanyl-tRNA and stimulates the GTP-dependent binding of EF-2. When protein synthesis is stopped by the addition of purpuromycin, the nascent peptide chains are found in the puromycin-reactive P site. The results suggest that the mechanism of action of purpuromycin is similar to that of fusidic acid. Both antibiotics would seem to produce a stable guanine nucleotide-ribosome-EF-2 complex which allows one round of translocation but prevents, because of a common or overlapping ribosomal binding site for the two elongation factors, the subsequent EF-1-dependent binding of aminoacyl-tRNA.

SUBMITTER: Rambelli F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1138507 | biostudies-other | 1989 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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