Phage SP01 middle transcripts are known to fall into two classes, m and m1l. Class m1l transcripts continue to be made late in the viral infection, while the synthesis of class m transcripts ceases soon after the onset of replication and late transcription. The experiments that are reported here deal with the regulatory nature of this diversity. The accumulation of transcripts associated with eight middle promoters was analyzed by S1 nuclease mapping. DNA sequence surrounding these middle promoters was determined or redetermined, and the stability of RNA associated with most of these promoters was also analyzed. Class m1l transcription was shown to be associated with SPO1 middle promoters that remain active at late stages of viral development, when middle promoters of class m are repressed. The consensus sequences of class m and m1l middle promoters were found to be indistinguishable and the search for sequences consensual with late promoters yielded only divergent candidates. No other consensus sequence that is specific and exclusive to either class of middle promoters was detected within a hundred base pairs upstream or downstream of these promoters. Considerable variations in the stabilities of SPO1 middle transcripts were found. Two promoters that are only 71 base pairs apart yielded transcripts that had substantially different stabilities. The 5′-flanking segment of the transcript associated with the upstream promoter apparently conferred a high degree of stability on this RNA. © 1991.

Bacteriophage SPO1 middle transcripts

Scarlato V.;
1991

Abstract

Phage SP01 middle transcripts are known to fall into two classes, m and m1l. Class m1l transcripts continue to be made late in the viral infection, while the synthesis of class m transcripts ceases soon after the onset of replication and late transcription. The experiments that are reported here deal with the regulatory nature of this diversity. The accumulation of transcripts associated with eight middle promoters was analyzed by S1 nuclease mapping. DNA sequence surrounding these middle promoters was determined or redetermined, and the stability of RNA associated with most of these promoters was also analyzed. Class m1l transcription was shown to be associated with SPO1 middle promoters that remain active at late stages of viral development, when middle promoters of class m are repressed. The consensus sequences of class m and m1l middle promoters were found to be indistinguishable and the search for sequences consensual with late promoters yielded only divergent candidates. No other consensus sequence that is specific and exclusive to either class of middle promoters was detected within a hundred base pairs upstream or downstream of these promoters. Considerable variations in the stabilities of SPO1 middle transcripts were found. Two promoters that are only 71 base pairs apart yielded transcripts that had substantially different stabilities. The 5′-flanking segment of the transcript associated with the upstream promoter apparently conferred a high degree of stability on this RNA. © 1991.
1991
Scarlato V.; Greene J.R.; Peter Geiduschek E.
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