The 110-kDa polypeptide of spinach plastid DNA-dependent RNA polymerase: single-subunit enzyme or catalytic core of multimeric enzyme complexes?
- 15 June 1993
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 90 (12) , 5509-5513
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.90.12.5509
Abstract
Highly purified RNA polymerase preparations from spinach chloroplasts contain seven major polypeptides of 150, 145, 110, 102, 80, 75, and 38 kDa. I find that RNA polymerase activity can be separated under defined conditions into three different fractions by heparin-Sepharose chromatography. Immunological analysis has shown that the first fraction contains RNA polymerase activity associated with all seven major polypeptides, and other studies have shown that some of these polypeptides (150, 145, 80, and 38 kDa) are associated with an RNA polymerase similar to the Escherichia coli enzyme. However, similar analyses of the remaining fractions show activity associated only with the 110-kDa polypeptide, suggesting the existence of a second kind of chloroplast RNA polymerase. Samples of this 110-kDa polypeptide purified by SDS/PAGE actively synthesize RNA in a reaction dependent on a supercoiled DNA template and the four ribonucleoside triphosphates. Hence, this polypeptide has all of the properties expected of a single-subunit RNA polymerase of the T7 bacteriophage type.Keywords
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