Nucleic Acids Research, 1991, Vol. 19, No. 18 4949-4953
© 1991
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Direct introduction and transient expression of capped and non-capped RNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, CO 80262, USA
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Received June 10, 1991. Accepted August 16, 1991.
We report the Introduction of functional RNA molecules into yeast spheroplasts. Plasmids containing the firefly luciferase coding region were transcribed to yield RNAs suitable for introduction into yeast cells and direct assay of their translation products. The 5' noncoding regions of the RNAs were derived either from the 5' noncoding regions of firefly luciferase, poliovirus, or yeast viruslike-partlcle (VLP) L-A or M1 RNAs. Capped and noncapped mRNAs were made by T7 RNA polymerased I reded transcription and introduced into yeast spheroplasts. The peak time of luciferase transient expression from introduced RNAs was 2 – 4 h after their introduction. In contrast, transient expression of luciferase from a non-replicative, luciferase-encoding plasm id introduced into the cells was maximal at 16 h. For capped mRNAs, luciferase activity increased linearly with transcript amount for both yeast and human (HeLa) cells. Although non-capped luciferase mRNAs were expressed more efficiently following introduction into yeast than into HeLa cells, the 5' noncoding sequences from yeast double-stranded (ds)RNA VLP RNAs conferred no greater apparent cap-Independence than non-VLP RNA sequences In this transient expression assay. The RNA transient expression system will allow the study of translation of capped and non-capped RNAs in yeast cells and of the replicative cycle of yeast viruslike RNA genomes.
+Permanent address: Biology Department, Reed College, Portland, OR 97202, USA
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