A putative ATP-dependent RNA helicase involved in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosome assembly

  1. T L Ripmaster,
  2. G P Vaughn, and
  3. J L Woolford, Jr
  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

Abstract

We have isolated a cold-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in which there is a deficit of 60S ribosomal subunits. Cold sensitivity and the assembly defect are recessive and cosegregate, defining a single essential gene that we designated DRS1 (deficiency of ribosomal subunits). The wild-type DRS1 gene was cloned by complementation of the cold-sensitive phenotype of drs1. Sequence analysis reveals a high degree of similarity to a family of proteins that are thought to function as ATP-dependent RNA helicases. Pulse-chase analysis of ribosomal RNA synthesis and processing indicates that the drs1 mutant accumulates the 27S precursor of the mature 25S rRNA. These results suggest that, as in pre-mRNA splicing, RNA helicase activities are involved in ribosomal RNA processing.

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  1. PNAS December 1, 1992 vol. 89 no. 23 11131-11135
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