Abstract
Histone-H1 purified from rat skeletal muscle is a relatively potent inhibitor of peptide chain initiation in a cell free system, the rabbit reticulocyte lysate (50% inhibition at approximately 0.4 microM). H1 does not inhibit formation of the ternary complex nor its attachment to 40S ribosomes; the data are compatible with H1 binding to mRNA. The inhibition shows mRNA selectivity: translation of beta-globin mRNA is more affected than that of alpha-globin mRNA and hepatic albumin mRNA more than total hepatic mRNA. Whether or not histone-H1 plays a role in translational regulation in intact cells is conjectural, it may serve as a useful model for protein-mRNA interactions.
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