PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CHLAMYDOMONAS-REINHARDTII CHLOROPLAST GLUTAMYL-TRANSFER-RNA SYNTHETASE, A NATURAL MISACYLATING ENZYME
- 5 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 265 (7) , 4054-4057
Abstract
Glutamyl-tRNA synthetase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was purified by sequential column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, phosphocellulose, Mono Q, and Mono S. The apparent molecular mass of the protein when analyzed under both denaturing conditions (sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) and nondenaturing conditions (rate zonal sedimentation on glycerol gradients) was 62,000 Da; this indicates that the active enzyme is a monomer. The purified glutamyl-tRNA synthetase was identified as the chloroplast enzyme by its tRNA charging specificity. Reversed-phase chromatography of unfractionated C. reinhardtii tRNA resolved four peaks of glutamate acceptor RNA when assayed with the purified enzyme. The enzyme can also glutamylate Escherichia coli tRNA2Glu, but not cytoplasmic tRNAGlu from yeast or barley. In addition, the enzyme misacylates chloroplast tRNAGln with glutamate. A similar mischarging phenomenon has been demonstrated for the barley chloroplast enzyme (Schon, A., Kannangara, C. G., Gough, S., and Soll, D. (1988) Nature 331, 187-190) and for Bacillus subtilis glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (Proulx, M., Duplain, L., Lacoste, L., Yaguchi, M., and Lapointe, J. (1983) J. Biol. Chem. 258, 753-759).This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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