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The complex of ribonuclease A (RNase A) with uridine vanadate (U-V), a transition-state analogue, has been studied with 51V and proton NMR spectroscopy in solution and by neutron diffraction in the crystalline state. Upon the addition of aliquots of U-V at pH 6.6, the C epsilon-H resonances of the two active-site histidine residues 119 and 12 decrease in intensity while four new resonances appear. Above pH 8 and below pH 5, these four resonances decrease in intensity as the complex dissociates. These four resonances are assigned to His-119 and His-12 in protonated and unprotonated forms in the RNase-U-V complex. These resonances do not titrate or change in relative area in the pH range 5-8, indicating a slow protonation process, and the extent of protonation remains constant with ca. 58% of His-12 and ca. 26% of His-119 being protonated. The results of diffraction studies show that both His-12 and His-119 occupy well-defined positions in the RNase-U-V complex and that both are protonated. However, while the classic interpretation of the mechanism of action of RNase based on the proposal of Findlay et al. [Findlay, D., Herries, D. G., Mathias, A. P., Rabin, B. R., & Ross, C. A. (1962) Biochem. J. 85, 152-153] requires both His-12 and His-119 to be in axial positions relative to the pentacoordinate transition state, in the diffraction structure His-12 is found to be in an equatorial position, while Lys-41 is close to an axial position. Hydrogen exchange data show that the mobility and accessibility of amides in the RNase-U-V complex do not significantly differ from what was observed in the native enzyme. The results of both proton NMR in solution and neutron diffraction in the crystal are compared and interpreted in terms of the mechanism of action of RNase.
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PMID:Nuclear magnetic resonance and neutron diffraction studies of the complex of ribonuclease A with uridine vanadate, a transition-state analogue. 401

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

Poliovirus type I LSc strain labeled with (14)C-uridine was adsorbed onto isolated plasma membranes and incubated with them. When membranes from Hep-2 or Vero cells were used, 22% of the label was converted to a trichloroacetic acid-soluble form, when trypsin or ribonuclease was added, the fraction rendered soluble was increased, and when the two enzymes were added in sequence, 85% or more of the label became trichloroacetic acid-soluble. This labilization of poliovirus could be reproduced when butanol-solubilized proteins from membranes were substituted for the whole plasma membranes, but it did not occur with membranes from polio-virus-resistant calf kidney or BHK-21 cells.
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PMID:Uncoating of poliovirus by isolated plasma membranes. 431 52

Chick embryo fibroblast cultures infected with Sendai virus were incubated with (3)H-uridine in the presence of actinomycin D beginning at 18 hr after infection. The 35 and 18S virus-specific ribonucleic acid (RNA) components were found in a ribonuclease-sensitive form in the cell and appeared to be associated with polyribosomes. Newly synthesized 57S viral RNA was rapidly coated with protein to form intracellular viral nucleocapsid, and no 57S RNA was found "free" (ribonucleasesensitive) in the 2,000 x g supernatant fraction of disrupted cells. The nucleocapsid from detergent-disrupted Sendai virus and that from disrupted cells were indistinguishable in ultrastructure and buoyant density, and neither was found to be infectious or have hemagglutinating activity. Kinetic studies of nucleocapsid and virus formation indicated a relative block in conversion of viral nucleocapsid to complete enveloped virus in these cells, resulting in accumulation of large amounts of nucleocapsid in the cell cytoplasm.
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PMID:Replication of Sendai virus. II. Steps in virus assembly. 431 61

A ribonucleic acid (RNA)-dependent RNA polymerase was induced in chick embryo fibroblast cells after infection with Sendai virus (parainfluenza 1 virus). The enzyme was associated with the microsomal fraction of infected cells and reached maximum detectable activity at 18 hr after virus infection. The activity of the enzyme in vitro was dependent on the presence of added magnesium ions and all four nucleoside triphosphates and was not inhibited by actinomycin D. The RNA synthesized by the enzyme in vitro was sensitive to ribonuclease and consisted of a complex mixture of RNA species including 34S, 24S, and 18S components. Similar RNA components were detected in the microsomal fraction of Sendai virus-infected cells by labeling with (3)H-uridine from 17 to 18 hr postinfection in the presence of actinomycin D. Of the RNA synthesized by Sendai virus-induced RNA polymerase in vitro, 98% became insensitive to ribonuclease after annealing with RNA extracted from purified Sendai virus particles.
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PMID:Ribonucleic acid polymerase induced in cells infected with Sendai virus. 431 10


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