In Organello Transcription in Maize Mitochondria and Its Sensitivity to Inhibitors of RNA Synthesis

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Journal Plant Physiol

Specialty Physiology

Date 1987 Sep 1

PMID 16665676

Citations 6

Authors

P M Finnegan

G G Brown

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Abstract

Purified mitochondrial preparations from etiolated maize shoots support the incorporation of radioactivity from labeled UTP into RNA. The incorporation is linear with time for up to 2 hours, shows Michaelis-Menton kinetics with respect to the concentration of the labeled substrate, UTP, and has salt and pH optima which are different than those previously reported for RNA synthesis by isolated chloroplasts. When a crude mitochondrial preparation is subjected to isopycnic sucrose gradient centrifugation, the bulk of the RNA synthetic activity co-sediments with mitochondrial marker enzymes and with the mitochondrial 26S and 18S rRNAs. Maize mitochondrial RNA synthesis is prevented by actinomycin D and ethidium bromide but unaffected by alpha-amanitin. It is strongly inhibited by rifampicin at concentrations which have no effect on nuclear and chloroplast RNA synthesis, but only moderately inhibited by rifampicin at concentrations which completely inhibit bacterial RNA synthesis. The optimization, cell fractionation, and inhibitor data all suggest that contaminating organelles and bacteria do not contribute appreciably to the RNA synthesis in purified mitochondrial preparations.

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