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Query: EC:3.1.26.9 (ribonuclease)
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T. brucei cytoplasmic calcium-dependent alkaline ribonuclease activity from DEAE-cellulose fractionation was separated into endoribonuclease and exoribonuclease activities by hydroxyapatite chromatography. T. brucei cytoplasmic extract markedly decreased the endoribonuclease activity, but slightly potentiated the activities of the exoribonuclease and bovine ribonuclease A. While the endoribonuclease was activated by trypsin, the exoribonuclease and bovine ribonuclease A were partially inactivated by trypsin. The endoribonuclease was activated by p-chloromercuribenzoate or N-ethylmaleimide; the exoribonuclease was not affected by these sulfhydryl group reagents. Free ribonuclease was separated from the latent endoribonuclease by 1 M NaCl-Sephadex G-100 gel filtration. The results demonstrate that T. brucei cytoplasm contains a latent endoribonuclease consisting of ribonuclease and inhibitor protein.
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PMID:Trypanosoma brucei: calcium-dependent endoribonuclease is associated with inhibitor protein. 222 4

RNA is shown to be covalently linked to the large tumor antigen (TAg) of simian virus 40 (SV40). Proteolytic digestion of TAg, isolated in the presence of ribonuclease inhibitors from SV40 transformed Balb/c mouse cells, generated a specific phosphopeptide of high charge heterogeneity that was strongly retained on DEAE-cellulose in the presence of 7 M urea. Hydrolysis of this peptide with RNAase released the four standard ribonucleotide monophosphates. Analysis of peptide digestion products showed that the RNA is attached to TAg through a phosphodiester linkage between the beta-hydroxyl of a serine and the 5' phosphate of an invariant cytidine residue. The methods applied to SV40 TAg can be applied to other proteins, including cellular oncogene products, to investigate the possibility of covalent protein-RNA interactions.
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PMID:RNA is covalently linked to SV40 large T antigen. 283 78

A soluble ATP/Mg2-dependent proteolytic system from rabbit cardiac muscle has been identified (m ca. 310 kDa) and purified ca. 9-fold. This enzyme which splits the substrate [3H]globin and 125I-bovine serum albumin (125I-BSA) has many similarities to the ATP-dependent proteolytic enzyme system from reticulocytes which utilizes ubiquitin: 1) The specific activities in reticulocyte lysates and cardiac muscle extracts are of the same magnitude (0.5-1 arb. unit/mg). 2) The binding and elution behavior on DEAE-cellulose is similar. 3) In both cases the pH optimum (substrate 125I-BSA) is pH 7.6. 4) Both enzymes are inhibited by hemin, NEM and iodoacetate but not e.g. by leupeptin, or inhibitors of serine proteases. 5) Neither enzyme system can utilize ATP-analogs such as AMP-CPP, AMP-PCP, AMP-PNP or ATP-gamma-S. There are however also significant differences: 1) The enzyme system from cardiac muscle is fully active in the absence of ubiquitin and cannot be activated by this peptide. 2) The enzyme from cardiac muscle can degrade methylated BSA. 3) The cardiac muscle enzyme can be further purified on Sepharose 4B; the enzyme from reticulocytes is inactivated by this procedure. 4) The cardiac enzyme cannot be inactivated by ribonuclease as the reticulocyte counterpart. Although ubiquitin does not appear to play a role in the isolated ATP/Mg2-dependent proteolytic system from cardiac muscle, it is demonstrated for the first time that 125I-ubiquitin can be conjugated to a wide variety of cardiac muscle proteins in vitro in an ATP-dependent manner. Apparent molecular masses of major conjugates were: 185 kDa, 140 kDa, 85 kDa, 65 kDa, 46 kDa, 38 kDa and 36 kDa as estimated by discontinuous SDS gel electrophoresis. Addition of purified phosphorylase kinase to cardiac muscle extract changed the ubiquitination pattern by the appearance of two novel protein bands. It is concluded that the ATP/Mg2-dependent proteolytic system of cardiac muscle must be differentiated from the proteolytic system of reticulocytes mainly because of its ubiquitin-independence. Nevertheless the conjugation of 125I-ubiquitin to many muscle proteins is a strong indication for a crucial role of this interesting peptide in striated muscle.
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PMID:ATP-dependent proteolysis and the role of ubiquitin in rabbit cardiac muscle. 304 36

A procedure of large-scale isolation of homogeneous ribonuclease Th1 from cultural filtrates of Trichoderma harzianum with a yield over 50% has been developed. Three ion-exchange chromatographies on CM- and DEAE-cellulose gave 7500 fold purification of the protein with a specific activity of ca. 4500 U/mg. The RNase Th1 is shown to be a basic protein (pI 9.5) with Mr 10,747; it contains 106 amino acid residues (2 Asp, 6 Asn, 9 Thr, 12 Ser, 2 Glu, 1 Gln, 4 Pro, 16 Gly, 14 Ala, 4 Cys, 7 Val, 5 Ile, 2 Leu, 7 Tyr, 6 Phe, 2 His, 4 Lys, 3 Arg). The total amino acid sequence of RNase Th1 was determined and, on comparison with other guanyl-specific fungal RNases, showed a significant degree of homology, thus indicating probability of a common origin. By means of the equilibrium dialysis, crystals of RNase Th1 were obtained with the space group P3(2)21, a = b = 55.7, c = 80.1 A. A preliminary X-ray study of RNase Th1 was undertaken.
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PMID:[Isolation, analysis of amino acid sequence and crystallization of the extracellular ribonuclease Th1 from Trichoderma harzianum-01]. 313 1

A ribonuclease (RNAase) was isolated and purified from the urine of a 45-year-old man by column chromatographies on DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, cellulose phosphate and CM-cellulose followed by gel filtrations on Bio-Gel P-100 and Sephadex G-75, and finally to a homogeneous state by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme was designated RNAase 1. It was possible to detect RNAase 1 isozymes in urine and serum without difficulty using isoelectric focusing electrophoresis followed by immunoblotting with a rabbit antibody specific to RNAase 1. The existence of genetic polymorphism of RNAase 1 was detected in human serum utilizing this technique (Yasuda, T. et al. (1988) Am. J. Hum. Genet., in press). RNAase 1 in serum and urine seemed to exist in multiple forms with regard to molecular weight and pI value. Genetically polymorphic RNAase 1 was a glycoprotein, containing three mannose, one fucose, four glucosamine and no sialic acid residues per molecule, with a molecular weight of 16,000 and 17,500 determined by gel filtration and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, respectively. The enzyme was most active at pH 7.0 on yeast RNA substrate and inhibited remarkably by Cu2+, Hg2+ and Zn2+. It also showed definite substrate preference for poly(C) and poly(U), but much less activity against poly(A) and poly(G). Thus, the enzyme is a pyrimidine-specific RNAase.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a human urine ribonuclease (RNAase 1) showing genetic polymorphism. 336 53

1. The properties of a soluble ribonuclease from Aedes aegypti larvae have been compared with ribonuclease activity in adult female tissue. 2. In larval extracts ribonuclease activity was maximal at 40-45 degrees C whereas activity in tissue from adult females was highest at 50 degrees C. 3. Ribonuclease activity that was recovered in a 20-60% ammonium sulfate precipitate was further purified by batch elution from DEAE-Sephacel and from carboxymethylcellulose. 4. Ribonuclease activity in the partially purified fraction was sensitive to EDTA, stimulated by magnesium, had a pH optimum at 9.0 and a Mr of 45,000. 5. Agarose gels containing yeast RNA substrate were used to monitor partial purification of the larval ribonuclease.
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PMID:Properties of a ribonuclease from Aedes aegypti larvae. 342 5

A protein was isolated from plasma of partially (70%) hepatectomized rats that, injected in mice, increases the uptake of [3H]thymidine by liver DNA by 200-300% over that by injected control saline. The purification procedure consists essentially of three chromatography steps, employing Sephadex G-75, DEAE-cellulose and hydroxyapatite. The hepatic promoter (HP) preparation shows a single band in SDS/polyacrylamide (15%)-gel electrophoresis (silver stained), with an Mr of 64 000; its activity is suppressed by trypsin or pepsin and is unaffected by deoxyribonuclease or ribonuclease. On injection into mice (150 ng/mouse), it increases the mitotic index of the liver. It shows organ-specificity, acting on liver but not on spleen, kidney, lung or brain. In primary liver cultures, it produces an increase in uptake of [3H]thymidine into DNA in the range 1-10 ng/ml. In this system in vitro, it increases the uptake of 22Na+ immediately after addition.
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PMID:Purification of a liver DNA-synthesis promoter from plasma of partially hepatectomized rats. 374 89

Bovine pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase) A and S protein (enzymatically inactive proteolytic fragment of RNase A which contains RNA binding site) stimulate the activation, as evidenced by increasing DNA-cellulose binding, of highly purified rat hepatic glucocorticoid-receptor complexes. These effects are dose dependent with maximal stimulation of DNA-cellulose binding being detected at approximately 500 micrograms (50 units of RNase A/mL). RNase A and S protein do not enhance DNA-cellulose binding via their ability to interact directly with DNA or to increase nonspecific binding of receptors to cellulose. Neither S peptide (enzymatically inactive proteolytic fragment which lacks RNA binding site) nor cytochrome c, a nonspecific basic DNA binding protein, mimics these effects. RNase A and S protein do not stimulate the conformational change which is associated with activation and is reflected in a shift in the elution profile of receptor complexes from DEAE-cellulose. In contrast, these two proteins interact with previously heat-activated receptor complexes to further enhance their DNA-cellulose binding capacity and thus mimic the effects of an endogenous heat-stable cytoplasmic protein(s) which also function(s) during step 2 of in vitro activation [Schmidt, T. J., Miller-Diener, A., Webb, M. L., & Litwack, G. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 16255-16262]. Preadsorption of RNase A and S protein to an RNase affinity resin containing an inhibitory RNA analogue, or trypsin digestion of the RNA binding site within S protein, eliminates the subsequent ability of these two proteins to stimulate DNA-cellulose binding of the purified receptors.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effects of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A, S protein, and S peptide on activation of purified rat hepatic glucocorticoid-receptor complexes. 379 Apr 97

The glucocorticoid receptor (GC-R) isolated from the mouse AtT-20 pituitary tumor cell line exists in three forms. The untransformed (non-DNA-binding), 9.1S species (319K) can be converted into two transformed (DNA-binding) species. One of these (5.2 S, Mr 132K) appears to be composed of one molecule of the hormone-binding, monomeric protein (96K) plus a small RNA, while the second transformed species is the monomeric, hormone-binding subunit (3.8 S, 96K) itself. We wished to determine whether the untransformed GC-R contains RNA or if the monomer binds to RNA subsequent to subunit dissociation (which occurs during receptor transformation). Kinetic studies using both the crude and purified untransformed GC-R show that the untransformed, 9.1S GC-R dissociates into 3.8S monomeric subunits, without forming a transient 5.2S complex. The untransformed receptor was then purified with affinity chromatography, gel filtration, and DEAE-cellulose chromatography. One major protein band, corresponding in size to the GC-R monomer (94K-96K), was observed on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels upon silver staining or fluorography of [3H]dexamethasone mesylate covalently labeled receptor. In vivo 32P-labeling of AtT-20 cells, followed by purification of the untransformed GC-R, yielded two major 32P-labeled components (94K-96K and 24K). Both of these bands were protease-sensitive, contained phosphoserine, and were unaffected by ribonuclease treatment. We conclude that the untransformed mouse GC-R is wholly proteinaceous and contains no RNA. Thus, RNA binding occurs subsequent to dissociation of the oligomeric, untransformed GC-R complex into monomers.
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PMID:Absence of detectable ribonucleic acid in the purified, untransformed mouse glucocorticoid receptor. 381 82

Transcription by purified mammalian RNA polymerase II in vitro leads to extensive formation of DNA-RNA hybrids between nascent RNA and the template DNA strand. This is especially clear during transcription of 3'-extended (dC-tailed) DNA templates where the nontranscribed DNA strand is progressively displaced as transcription proceeds [Kadesch, T. R., & Chamberlin, M. J. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 5286-5295]. Addition of small amounts of a HeLa cell extract to such a transcription system enhances renaturation of the template DNA and displacement of the nascent RNA, as measured by the sensitivity of the RNA to pancreatic ribonuclease. Using this latter assay, we have purified a protein factor (renaturase) 250-fold from HeLa cell extracts using chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, DNA-cellulose, and hydroxylapatite. Renaturase preparations facilitate complete renaturation of the template DNA duplex during transcription by RNA polymerase II and lead to concurrent displacement of the nascent RNA. Current preparations are free from all but traces of deoxyribonuclease or ribonuclease. The active component has a molecular weight of about 30000 as estimated by preparative density gradient sedimentation. We have examined the structure of transcribing RNA polymerase II complexes in the presence and absence of renaturase, using the electron microscope and the Williams polylysine technique [Williams, R. C. (1977) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 74, 2311-2315]. In the presence of renaturase, the DNA template is fully renatured, and a ternary complex in which the nascent RNA is displaced during transcription is seen.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Studies on transcription of 3'-extended DNA templates by mammalian RNA polymerase II. Partial purification and characterization of a factor from HeLa cells that facilitates renaturation of the DNA template. 399 13


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