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  • Title: The effects of paromomycin on the fidelity of translation in a yeast cell-free system.
    Author: Tuite MF, McLaughlin CS.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1984 Nov 22; 783(2):166-70. PubMed ID: 6388640.
    Abstract:
    The effects of the aminoglycoside antibiotic paromomycin on the fidelity of translation of the synthetic template poly(U), and two natural mRNAs (rabbit globin mRNA and Brome Mosaic virus RNA), were examined in an mRNA-dependent cell-free system from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. At antibiotic concentrations that did not inhibit translation (100 microM) optimal mistranslation of all three templates was observed, with the effects declining at higher antibiotic concentrations. Synthesis of the opal termination read-through protein of rabbit beta-globin mRNA was induced by paromomycin, but only in lysates prepared from a [psi+] strain of yeast. The antibiotic did not induce detectable levels of either ochre or amber read-through, but did induce general misreading of Brome Mosaic virus RNA to the same degree in both [psi+] and [psi-] lysates. This misreading was enhanced by addition of the polyamine spermidine.
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