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Effect of seminal plasmin on rRNA synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Author(s) -
Venkov Pencho,
Scheit Karl Heinz
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/0014-5793(84)80864-9
Subject(s) - plasmin , ribosomal rna , saccharomyces cerevisiae , yeast , protein biosynthesis , biochemistry , ribosome , transcription (linguistics) , ribosomal protein , rna , biology , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , enzyme , linguistics , philosophy
Seminal plasmin, the highly basic, antimicrobial protein, isolated from bull semen, was found to inhibit the transcription of ribosomal RNA in yeast. Protein synthesis and processing of rRNA remained unaffected. Seminal plasmin appears to be useful for studies of the biosynthesis of yeast rRNA in pulsechase experiments.