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SsrA-mediated tagging and proteolysis of LacI and its role in the regulation of lac operon.
The EMBO journal - 17 Jul 2000
Abo T, Inada T, Ogawa K, Aiba H
Abstract excerpt
SsrA RNA of Escherichia coli, also known as 10Sa RNA or tmRNA, acts both as tRNA and mRNA when ribosomes are paused at the 3' end of an mRNA lacking a stop codon. This process, referred to as trans-translation, leads to the addition of a short peptide tag to the C-terminus of the incomplete nascent polypeptide. The tagged polypeptide is then degraded by C-terminal-specific proteases. Here, we focused on...
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