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  • Title: Galactose-specific messenger ribonucleic acid contents in Escherichia coli.
    Author: Gosden JR, Irving MI, Bishop JO.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1971 Jan; 121(1):109-16. PubMed ID: 4940376.
    Abstract:
    A method is described for measuring the proportion of galactose-specific mRNA (gal-mRNA) in the total RNA extracted from pulse-labelled cells of Escherichia coli K12, by DNA-RNA hybridization with DNA prepared from bacteriophage lambdadg. RNA from wild-type E. coli was compared with RNA from a homogenote carrying the gal operon both in the chromosome and in a substituted sex-factor, and with RNA from a deletion strain that carried the galactose operon only in the exogenote. In each case the cultures were induced with fucose. Under these conditions the amount of gal-mRNA was found to be proportional to the content of galactokinase in the different cultures, and to the gene frequency. The amounts of gal-mRNA in an O(c) mutant and an R(-) mutant were also proportional to the observed contents of galactokinase. In cultures repressed for the enzymes of the galactose operon with thiomethylgalactoside, the content of gal-mRNA was higher than expected from the content of galactokinase. Possible explanations of this finding are discussed.
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