Ornithine capture by a translating ribosome controls bacterial polyamine synthesis
A. Herrero del Valle, B. Seip, I. Cervera-Marzal, G. Sacheau, A. C. Seefeldt, C. A. Innis
The paper shows how ornithine binding to a ribosome and nascent peptide SpeFL controls polyamine synthesis in bacteria by inducing SpeF expression through ribosome stalling and transcription antitermination.
bioRxiv · Nov 25, 2019Microbiology