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Expression of maize eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) iso4E is regulated at the translational level.

ABSTRACT: Mechanisms for regulation of gene expression at the translational level have been reported at specific developmental stages in eukaryotes. Control of eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 4E availability by insulin/growth factors constitutes a main point of translational regulation. The aim of the present research was to understand the regulatory mechanism(s) behind the differential expression of two main 4E factors present in maize embryonic axes during germination. De novo synthesis of eIFiso4E initiates earlier and is faster than that of eIF4E in maize axes. Insulin addition to maize axes stimulated de novo synthesis of the eIFiso4E protein, but not that of eIF4E. Specific recruitment of the eIFiso4E transcript into polysomes was observed in these axes after insulin stimulation. Inhibitors of the insulin signal-transduction pathway, wortmannin and rapamycin, reversed the insulin effect. In vitro translation of maize poly(A)(+) RNAs by S6 ribosomal protein (rp)-phosphorylated ribosomes demonstrated a strong increase in eIFiso4E synthesis, as compared with its translation by S6 rp-non-phosphorylated ribosomes. Other mRNAs from the poly(A)(+) RNA set, including the eIF4E mRNA, did not show differential translation with regard to the S6-phosphorylated status of the ribosomes. The overall results indicate that eIFiso4E, but not eIF4E, cell content is regulated by de novo synthesis in maize axes during germination, most probably by specific mRNA recruitment into polysomes via a signal-transduction pathway involving S6 rp phosphorylation.

SUBMITTER: Dinkova TD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1221425 | biostudies-other | 2000 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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