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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1994

Spermidine deficiency increases +1 ribosomal frameshifting efficiency and inhibits Ty1 retrotransposition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

D Balasundaram, J D Dinman, R B Wickner, C W Tabor, H Tabor

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

D BalasundaramLaboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
J D Dinman
R B Wickner
C W Tabor
H Tabor
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyamines have been implicated in nucleic acid-related functions and in protein biosynthesis. RNA sequences that specifically direct ribosomes to shift reading frame in the -1 and +1 directions may be used to probe the mechanisms controlling translational fidelity. We examined the effects of spermidine on translational fidelity by an in vivo assay in which changes in beta-galactosidase activity are dependent on yeast retrovirus Ty +1 and yeast double-stranded RNA virus L-A -1 ribosomal frameshifting signals. In spe2 delta mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which cannot make spermidine as a result of a deletion in the SPE2 gene, there is a marked elevation in +1 but no change in -1 ribosomal frameshifting. The increase in +1 ribosomal frameshifting efficiency is accompanied by a striking decrease in Ty1 retrotransposition.

Indexed as

DNA Transposable ElementsProtein BiosynthesisAdenosylmethionine DecarboxylaseBase SequenceGenes, SuppressorMolecular Sequence DataOligodeoxyribonucleotidesRibosomesRNA, Transfer, ArgSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSpermidineAdenosylmethionine DecarboxylaseDNA Transposable ElementsOligodeoxyribonucleotidesRNA, Transfer, ArgSpermidine

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PMID8278359
PMCPMC42908
OpenAlexW2012468130

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