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Query: EC:3.1.26.9 (ribonuclease)
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Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements were performed on the thermal denaturation of ribonuclease a and ribonuclease a complexed with an inhibitor, cytidine or uridine 3'-monophosphate, in sodium acetate buffered solutions. Thermal denaturation of the complex results in dissociation of the complex into denatured ribonuclease a and free inhibitor. Binding constants of the inhibitor to ribonuclease a were determined from the increase in the denaturation temperature of ribonuclease a in the complexed form and from the denaturation enthalpy of the complex. Binding enthalpies of the inhibitor to ribonuclease a were determined from the increase in the denaturation enthalpy of ribonuclease a complexed with the inhibitor. For the cytidine inhibitor in 0.2 M sodium acetate buffered solutions, the binding constants increase from 87 +/- 8 M-1 (pH 7.0) to 1410 +/- 54 M-1 (pH 5.0), while the binding enthalpies increase from 17 +/- 13 kJ mol-1 (pH 4.7) to 79 +/- 15 kJ mol-1 (pH 5.5). For the uridine inhibitor in 0.2 M sodium acetate buffered solutions, the binding constants increase from 104 +/- 1 M-1 (pH 7.0) to 402 +/- 7 M-1 (pH 5.5), while the binding enthalpies increase from 16 +/- 5 kJ mol-1 (pH 6.0) to 37 +/- 4 kJ mol-1 (pH 7.0). The binding constants and enthalpies of the cytidine inhibitor in 0.05 M sodium acetate buffered solutions increase respectively from 328 +/- 37 M-1 (pH 6.5) to 2200 +/- 364 M-1 (pH 5.5) and from 22 kJ mol-1 (pH 5.5) to 45 +/- 7 kJ mol-1 (pH 6.5). the denaturation transition cooperativities of the uncomplexed and complexed ribonuclease a were close to unity, indicating that the transition is two state with a stoichiometry of 1.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Interaction of cytidine 3'-monophosphate and uridine 3'-monophosphate with ribonuclease a at the denaturation temperature. 324 92

The activity of the endoribonuclease VI from Artemia is sensitive to several purine nucleotides. The enzyme is non-competitively inhibited by diguanosine tetraphosphate (Ki = 75 microM), a nucleotide abundant in Artemia encysted gastrulae and located in the same particulate fraction as the gastrular ribonuclease. Diguanosine triphosphate and diadenosine tetraphosphate are less efficient inhibitors (Ki congruent to 200 microM). The ribonuclease is non-competitively inhibited by 5'-AMP (Ki = 10 microM) and 5'-GMP (Ki = 50 microM) but is insensitive to the corresponding 5'-phosphates of cytosine and uridine. Other purine mononucleotides inhibit the enzyme activity less efficiently. The modulation of the enzyme activity by these nucleotides is discussed in relation with the changes in ribonuclease activity during early development of Artemia.
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PMID:Diguanosine 5',5'''-P1,P4-tetraphosphate and other purine nucleotides inhibit endoribonuclease VI from Artemia. 341 43

A ribonuclease was isolated from serum-free supernatants of the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line HT-29. It was purified by cation-exchange and C18 reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The protein is basic, has a molecular weight of approximately 16,000, and has an amino acid composition that is significantly different from that of human pancreatic ribonuclease. The amino terminus is blocked, and the carboxyl-terminal residue is glycine. The catalytic properties of this ribonuclease resemble those of the pancreatic ribonucleases in numerous respects. Thus, it exhibits a pH optimum of approximately 6 for dinucleotide cleavage and employs a two-step mechanism in which transphosphorylation to a cyclic 2',3'-phosphate is followed by slower hydrolysis to produce a 3'-phosphate. It does not cleave NpN' substrates in which adenosine or guanosine is at the N position and prefers purines at the N' position. Like bovine ribonuclease A, the HT-29-derived ribonuclease is inactivated by reductive methylation or by treatment with iodoacetate at pH 5.5 and is strongly inhibited by the human placental ribonuclease inhibitor. However, in contrast, the tumor enzyme does not cleave CpN bonds at an appreciable rate and prefers poly(uridylic acid) as substrate 1000-fold over poly(cytidylic acid). It also hydrolyzes cytidine cyclic 2',3'-phosphate at least 100 times more slowly than uridine cyclic 2',3'-phosphate and is inhibited much less strongly by cytidine 2'-monophosphate than by uridine 2'-monophosphate. Other ribonucleases known to prefer poly(uridylic acid) were isolated both from human serum and from liver and were compared with the tumor enzyme. The physical, functional, and chromatographic properties of the serum ribonuclease are essentially identical with those of the tumor enzyme. The liver enzymes, however, differ markedly from the HT-29 ribonuclease. The potential utility of the tumor ribonuclease in the diagnosis of cancer is considered.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of a human colon carcinoma-secreted enzyme with pancreatic ribonuclease-like activity. 346 90

The stochastic boundary molecular dynamics method is used to study the structure, dynamics, and energetics of the solvated active site of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A. Simulations of the native enzyme and of the enzyme complexed with the dinucleotide substrate CpA and the transition-state analog uridine vanadate are compared. Structural features and dynamical couplings for ribonuclease residues found in the simulation are consistent with experimental data. Water molecules, most of which are not observed in crystallographic studies, are shown to play an important role in the active site. Hydrogen bonding of residues with water molecules in the free enzyme is found to mimic the substrate-enzyme interactions of residues involved in binding. Networks of water stabilize the cluster of positively charged active site residues. Correlated fluctuations between the uridine vanadate complex and the distant lysine residues are mediated through water and may indicate a possible role for these residues in stabilizing the transition state.
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PMID:Active site dynamics of ribonuclease. 386 34

Anti-hapten sera prepared in rabbits contain individual immunoglobulin species capable of binding several pairs of structurally diverse haptens A and B. (A = inosine, uridine, menadione, vitamin K(1), ribonuclease; B = 2,4-dinitrophenyl). In antisera against hapten A subjected to isoelectric focusing, there are many anti-A immunoglobulin species, but only a small proportion of these bind both A and B. When rabbits are primed with haptens A coupled to a carrier and then challenged with hapten B-carrier complex, there is an early restricted response of those species that bind both A and B. Later, immunoglobulins appear which bind B, but not A. These results suggest that multiple-binding antibodies exist in antisera against hapten and that such multiple binding is functional; i.e., that when two diverse haptens A and B bind to an immunoglobulin, both haptens may stimulate the cell-surface receptor to induce production of this immunoglobulin. Such phenomena may also provide a molecular basis for maturation of the immune response.
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PMID:Antibodies with multiple binding functions. Induction of single immunoglobin species by structurally dissimilar haptens. 413 46

Kudo, Hajime (The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pa.), and A. F. Graham. Synthesis of reovirus ribonucleic acid in L cells. J. Bacteriol. 90:936-945. 1965.-There is no inhibition of protein or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis in L cells infected with reovirus until the time that new virus starts to form about 8 hr after infection. At this time, both protein synthesis and DNA synthesis commence to be inhibited. Neither the synthesis of ribosomal ribonucleic acid (RNA) nor that of the rapidly labeled RNA of the cell nucleus is inhibited before 10 hr after infection. Actinomycin at a concentration of 0.5 mug/ml does not inhibit the formation of reovirus, although higher concentrations of the antibiotic do so. Pulse-labeling experiments with uridine-C(14) carried out in the presence of 0.5 mug/ml of actinomycin show that, at 6 to 8 hr after infection, two species of virus-specific RNA begin to form and increase in quantity as time goes on. One species is sensitive to ribonuclease action and the other is very resistant. The latter RNA is probably double-stranded viral progeny RNA, and it constitutes approximately 40% of the RNA formed up to 16 hr after infection. The function of the ribonuclease-sensitive RNA is not yet known. Synthesis of both species of RNA is inhibited by 5 mug/ml of actinomycin added at early times after infection. Added 6 to 8 hr after infection, when virus-specific RNA has already commenced to form, 5 mug/ml of actinomycin no longer inhibit the formation of either species of RNA.
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PMID:Synthesis of reovirus ribonucleic acid in L cells. 415 5

In a number of mammalian cell strains nucleoli persisted through mitosis. This phenomenon was especially pronounced in several cell lines derived from Chinese hamster tissues. All the methods employed, including radioautography with tritiated uridine, cytochemical stains (methyl green-pyronin and azure B), fluorescent microscopy (coriphosphine O), ribonuclease digestion, and electron microscopy, demonstrated that the bodies identified as persistent nucleoli in the mitotic stages had the same characteristics as did the nucleoli in the interphase. Persistent nucleoli may attach to the chromosomes or may be free in the cytoplasm. In cells where no persistent nucleoli as such were noted, nucleolar material was observed to attach to the chromosomes in shapeless masses which moved with the chromosomes during anaphase. At least a portion of the nucleolar material was included in the daughter nuclei, presumably for immediate use for protein synthesis after cell division.
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PMID:The nucleoli in mitotic divisions of mammalian cells in vitro. 422 82

By using the technique of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-ribonucleic acid (RNA) hybridization, virus-specific RNA (cRNA) was detected 6 hr after infection in preparations of total RNA from cells infected with type 2 adenovirus in the presence of 2 mum 5-fluorodeoxyuridine. In the absence of 5-fluorodeoxyuridine, there was a continuous increase in the incorporation of (3)H-uridine into viral cRNA until 20 hr after infection, at which time approximately 40% of the (3)H-uridine entering RNA was found in virus-specific RNA. When RNA was prepared from polyribosome fractions obtained from cytoplasmic extracts of infected cells, virus-directed transcription was detected at 3 hr after infection (i.e., 3 to 4 hr before the initiation of viral DNA synthesis). Viral cRNA species synthesized at different times after infection were compared by the technique of DNA-RNA hybridization-inhibition ("presaturation" hybridization-competition). Three hybridization-inhibition techniques were compared. The techniques differed in the manner in which the DNA-RNA complex was isolated after the first hybridization reaction. Depending on the procedure employed, various degrees of inhibition were measured. The variation could be essentially eliminated if prior to hybridization the inhibitory RNA species were alkali-degraded to a uniform size of about 4S. Undegraded RNA could be used if the DNA-RNA complex was isolated by using a procedure involving rigorous washing (preferably including ribonuclease treatment) before the second hybridization with labeled RNA. When a rigorous hybridization-inhibition procedure was used, three classes of virus-specific RNA species could be distinguished: (i) early RNA class I whose synthesis began prior to viral DNA replication and stopped at some time after the initiation of viral DNA replication-it comprised about 70% of the early RNA species and was apparently degraded by 18 hr after infection; (ii) early RNA class II whose synthesis began prior to viral DNA replication and apparently continued at an enhanced rate late in infection; and (iii) late RNA whose synthesis began after the initiation of viral DNA synthesis.
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PMID:Synthesis of virus-specific ribonucleic acid in KB cells infected with type 2 adenovirus. 425 15

Wild-type, band, and fluffy strains of Neurospora crassa exhibit circadian rhythms of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid content in the growth-front hyphae of cultures grown on a solid medium. There is also a rhythm of (3)H-uridine incorporation into the nucleic acids of the band strain. Maximum incorporation precedes the peaks of nucleic acid content which occur during conidiation. As cultures age, ribonucleic acid content decreases rapidly and deoxyribonucleic acid content decreases gradually in standing, shake, and bubble cultures. A reduction of ribonuclease activity with age is also noted in standing and shake cultures. The nucleic acid content, nuclease activity, and changes associated with age vary with the culture conditions.
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PMID:Circadian rhythms of nucleic acid metabolism in Neurospora crassa. 427 17

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV)-specific ribonucleic acid (RNA) was analyzed by electrophoresis on 0.5% agarose gels. Four classes of RNA were resolved as a function of mobility in agarose: two classes of slowly migrating multistranded RNA, the infectious viral RNA with intermediate mobility, and a minor fast-moving class of lower-molecular-weight single-stranded RNA. The major RNA species were infectious viral RNA and the slowest migrating class of multistranded RNA. The latter RNA was polydisperse when analyzed by sucrose gradient centrifugation, it was partially ribonuclease resistant, and it was the predominant RNA species labeled during the initial period of (3)H-uridine triphosphate incorporation in the cell-free system. Heat treatment studies indicated that part of the slowest-moving RNA was degraded at 60 C and almost complete degradation was detected at 100 C. It was concluded that this RNA is the replicative intermediate in viral RNA synthesis. The second class of multistranded RNA contained both a ribonuclease-resistant RNA and a second RNA peak which was detected only after heat treatment at temperatures above 75 C. Fractions of FMDV-specific RNA isolated by sucrose gradient centrifugation were analyzed by agarose-gel electrophoresis. Infectious viral RNA was detected only in the 37S zone and was the major species of RNA in this part of the gradient. The ribonuclease-resistant RNA (the 20S zone) contained about equal amounts of multistranded RNA (both classes) and the low-molecular-weight single-stranded RNA. All sucrose gradient fractions between 20 and 40S were found to contain the replicative intermediate, although the major portion was detected in the 20 to 25S region.
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PMID:Electrophoretic characterization of foot-and-mouth disease virus-specific ribonucleic acid. 431 99


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