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The shift of recessive suppressor mutant of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae from permissive to restrictive conditions is accompanied by polysome decay and accumulation of 80 S ribosomes (Smirnov et al., 1976). In this paper some properties of 80 S ribosomes are studied. It is demonstrated that polysome decay under non-permissive conditions is not the consequence of the impairement of RNA synthesis. More than 70% of 80 S ribosomes accumulated under non-permissive conditions contain bound peptidyl-tRNAs localized in P-ribosomal site. tRNA moiety of bound peptidyl-tRNA is able to accept all 20 natural amino acids after chemical deacylation. Therefore it is not a specific isoacceptor species but rather total tRNA that is bound to ribosomes. The polypeptide residues of these peptidyl-tRNAs are heterogeneous in size. Their molecular weights are comparable with the molecular weights of the completed polypeptides. Some of the 80 S ribosomes accumulated under non-permissive conditions contain poly-A RNA. In conclusion, possible mechanism of the impairement of translation under non-permissive conditions in recessive suppressor strain is discussed.
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Surguchov, A.P., Fominykch, E.S., Berestetskaya, Y.V. et al. Recessive nonsense-suppression in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Molec. Gen. Genet. 177, 675–680 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272679
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