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Mol Cell Biol. 1988 June; 8(6): 2280-2287

Transcriptional regulation of coordinate changes in flagellar mRNAs during differentiation of Naegleria gruberi amebae into flagellates.

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260.

ABSTRACT

The nuclear run-on technique was used to measure the rate of transcription of flagellar genes during the differentiation of Naegleria gruberi amebae into flagellates. Synthesis of mRNAs for the axonemal proteins alpha- and beta-tubulin and flagellar calmodulin, as well as a coordinately regulated poly(A)+ RNA that codes for an unidentified protein, showed transient increases averaging 22-fold. The rate of synthesis of two poly(A)+ RNAs common to amebae and flagellates was low until the transcription of the flagellar genes began to decline, at which time synthesis of the RNAs found in amebae increased 3- to 10-fold. The observed changes in the rate of transcription can account quantitatively for the 20-fold increase in flagellar mRNA concentration during the differentiation. The data for the flagellar calmodulin gene demonstrate transcriptional regulation for a nontubulin axonemal protein. The data also demonstrate at least two programs of transcriptional regulation during the differentiation and raise the intriguing possibility that some significant fraction of the nearly 200 different proteins of the flagellar axoneme is transcriptionally regulated during the 1 h it takes N. gruberi amebae to form visible flagella.

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