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Two new mitochondrial mutations conferring heat sensitivity on glycerol medium to the cells that carry them and affecting mitochondrial protein synthesis were investigated. Both map in the mitochondrial tRNAphe gene and have C-to-U transitions, one at position 2 (ts22b16) and the other at 62 (ts1345). The latter mutation clearly affects the 3′ end-maturation of tRNAphe, while the former presents normal patterns of both tRNA processing and amino-acylation. The defective phenotype resulting from the ts22b16 mutation can be corrected by over-expressing either the mitochondrial elongation factor EF-Tu or the mutated form of the tRNA. These results suggest that this mutation's primary effect might involve modified interactions during the ternary complex formation.
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Received: 27 July / 14 October 1997
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Francisci, S., Bohn, C., Frontali, L. et al. Ts mutations in mitochondrial tRNA genes: characterization and effects of two point mutations in the mitochondrial gene for tRNAphe in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Genet 33, 110–116 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002940050315
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002940050315