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CELL‐FREE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS BY MOUSE BRAIN DURING EARLY DEVELOPMENT
Author(s) -
Johnson T. C.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of neurochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.75
H-Index - 229
eISSN - 1471-4159
pISSN - 0022-3042
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1968.tb06836.x
Subject(s) - protein biosynthesis , intracellular , biology , amino acid , brain tissue , biochemistry , membrane permeability , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , chemistry , membrane , neuroscience
—Cell‐free homogenates were employed to study the nature of the mechanism that is responsible for the rapid decrement in protein synthesis during early neural development. There was a progressive loss of polypeptide synthesis in post‐mitochondrial fractions that were isolated from increasingly older tissue. By the time the animals were approximately 17 days old, the rate of amino acid incorporation had decreased to the rate that was measured in adult brain preparations. This decrement in synthetic activity was similar to that previously measured in developing intact brain cells. The loss in protein synthesis was demonstrated to be independent of cellular membrane permeability and under the influence of intracellular control mechanisms. Although the nature of the control mechanism is still not clear, a lack of template RNA to direct protein synthesis was not the limiting factor in the decreased synthesis of the older brain preparations.