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The dimeric enzyme, alpha-Glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, was purified from eight Drosophila species by the method of Collier et al. (1976). The enzymes were inactivated at high pH and the conditions sufficient for reactivation were established. Electrophoretic patterns of reactivated alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenases which were mixed following inactivation of two species' enzymes, demonstrate that high pH dissociates the enzyme into its constituent subunits and reactivation involves subunit reassociation. Twenty interspecific combinations of dissociated enzymes were allowed to reassociate, and the amounts of both heterospecific and homospecific enzyme activity and protein were determined by densitometry. In all 20 tests there were no differences between observed and expected heterospecific:homospecific enzyme ratios. These results are consistent with the very slow rate of evolution of this enzyme in the family Drosophilidae (Collier and MacIntyre, 1977).
J Mol Evol 1978 Dec 29
PMID:Quantitative subunit hybridization of drosophila alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase. 3 73

Native dimeric methionyl-tRNA synthetase and its monomeric proteolytic fragment are shown to form and to bind 1 mol of methyionyl adenylate per polypeptide chain. Moreover, at 25 degrees C, each monomer of the dimeric native enzyme behaves independently, exhibiting the same parameters for the methionine activation reaction as does the monomeric modified enzyme. These results were obtained using several independent methods including equilibrium and nonequilibrium dialysis, active site and tryptophan fluorescence titrations, and stopped-flow by fluorescence. Stopped-flow resolution of the reversible methionine activation reaction also demonstrates that methionine and ATP-Mg2+ react without coupling to form a ternary enzyme-methionine-ATP-Mg2+ complex. This complex readily converts to enzyme-methionyl approximately adenylate-PP-Mg2+ with a standard free energy close to zero. It is concluded that the uncoupled enzyme-methionine-ATP-Mg2+ complex may resemble the transition state of the reaction at the expense of the additional state of the reaction at the expense of the additional synergistic binding energy provided by reciprocal coupling, within the site, of the methionine molecule with the adenosine and PP-Mg2+ parts of the ATP-Mg2+ molecule (Blanguet, S., Fayat, G., and Waller, J. P. (1975), J. Mol. Biol. 94, 1.).
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PMID:Methionyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli: active stoichiometry and stopped-flow analysis of methionyl adenylate formaiton. 18 14

1. The synthesis of mitochondrial DNA in CEF in vivo at 3,4 and 6 days after infection with RSV (Schmidt-Ruppin, subgroup A) was progressively stimulated 2 to 4-fold as compared with that in uninfected CEF cells grown in parallel. 2. The stimulation of mtDNA synthesis in vivo upon transformation was found to be temperature dependent when the thermosensitive mutant of RSV, T5, was used to infect the cells. 3. In contrast to mtDNA synthesis, nuclear DNA synthesis did not differ in transformed and uninfected cells, nor did it change significantly upon temperature shifts. 4. MtDNA (monomeric and catenated dimeric forms) in transformed and uninfected CEF replicate by displacement synthesis. Various replication intermediates are described. 5. The restriction endonuclease EcoRI cleaves closed circular mtDNA from CEF at one specific site. 6. Heteroduplex molecules formed between nicked circular and/or EcoRI cleaved mt DNA molecules from uninfected and transformed CEF revealed, with a few exceptions, no detectable base sequence heterogeneity in at least 98% of cases. 7. Intramitochondrial virus like particles (IMV) are described in hamster tumor cells. The evidence suggests both engulfment of cytoplasmic particles by mitochondria and the presence of intramitochondrial incomplete forms of particles. Bromodeoxyuridine was found to enhance the frequency of IMV.
Mol Cell Biochem 1977 Feb 04
PMID:Studies on the synthesis and structure of mitochondrial DNA in cells infected by Rous sarcoma viruses and on the occurrence of intramitochondrial virus-like particles in certain RSV-induced tumor cells. 19 95

The catalytic groups, involved in aminoacyl-tRNA formation remain unknown. The isolation and identification of an active covalent complex between the enzyme and substrate is an essential step in understanding the reaction mechanism. We identified and isolated the covalent complex of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (EC 6.1.1.2) and tryptophane which was able to aminoacylate the tRNATrp in the absence of ATP. In beef pancreas tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase preparations, isolated by the previously described method, a tightly bound tryptophan was revealed which could not be removed by charcoal treatment, by gel-filtration and by replacement with the excess of typtamine, a competitive inhibitor of tryptophane. This tightly bound tryptophane is able to exchange rapidly and specifically with radioactive tryptophane allowing to obtain [14C]tryptophane-tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase complex. After the reaction of this complex with NH2OH at neutral pH tryptophanyl hydroxamate is formed proving the activated state of the tryptophane in the initial complex with the enzyme. No nucleotide impurites were noticed in the enzyme preparation; the complex is stable at denaturation. A conclusion is made that the tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase isolated by our method is a tryptophanyl-enzyme. The tryptophanyl residue could be specifically transferred to tRNATrp in the absence of other substrates of the reaction, the efficiency of the transfer does not exceed 25%. The content of the covalently bound tryptophane never exceeds 1 mole per mole of the dimeric enzyme. The total content of tryptophane in the forms of tryptophanyl-enzyme and tryptophanyl adenylate enzyme complex equals 2 moles per mole of the enzyme. The tryptophanyl-enzyme is destroyed during incubation with AMP or with pyrophosphate. The role of the tryptophanyl-enzyme as a possible intermediate in the course of aminoacylation of tRNATrp is discussed.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase: isolation and characteristics of the tryptophanyl-enzyme]. 20 77

We have characterized a number of P1Cm phages which contain the resistance genes to chloramphenicol and fusidic acid as IS1-flanked Cm transposons. Restriction cleavage and electron microscopic analysis showed that these Cm transposons were carried as monomers (M) or tandem dimers (D). Lysogens of P1Cm (D) are more resistant to chloramphenicol than those of its P1Cm (M) presumably as a result of an increased gene dosage. Amplification of the Cm transposons to tandem multimers was frequently observed in P1Cm (D) lysogens grown in the presence of high concentrations of chloramphenicol or fusidic acid and was also detected in P1Cm (M) lysogens. The degree of amplification varied in different clones which suggests that cells containing spontaneously amplified Cm transposons were selected by high doses of the antibiotics. The dimeric as well as the amplified Cm transposons carried in P1Cm lysogens grown in the absence of chloramphenicol displayed considerable stability. Mechanisms for the amplification of the IS1-flanked transposons are discussed.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Oct 03
PMID:Amplification of chloramphenicol resistance transposons carried by phage P1Cm in Escherichia coli. 23 Nov 82

Each subunit of the dimeric tryptophanyl-tRNA-synthetase from beef pancreas is subjected to limited hydrolysis by elastase in two stages, according to scheme: 60 00 +/- 2000 leads to 51 000 +/- 2000 leads to 40 000 +/- 1500 daltons. In the course of the second step tryptophanyl-tRNA-synthetase looses its enzymatic activity. In the presence of substrates the pattern of fragments does not change. Formation of tryptophanyladenylate enzyme complex decreases the rate of proteolysis. Using the ability of synthetase to form one mole of stable aminoacyladenylate per mole of synthetase, the "one-site" enzyme was obtained by action of elastase on aminoacyladenylate-enzyme complex. This "one-site" enzyme consists of two subunits, one of which has a molecular weight of 51 000 daltons and is active and the other has a molecular weight of 40 000 daltons and is inactive. The "one-site" enzyme had Km values for all substrates for both aminoacylation and ATP--[32P]PP exchange reactions which are similar to values of Km for the native enzyme.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Tryptophanyl-tRNA-synthetase: limited proteolysis by elastase and isolation of "one-site" enzyme]. 26 32

The amylase-protein amylase inhibitor system offers a unique model of specific and reversilbe protein-protein interaction. The monomeric and dimeric inhibitors, exhibiting closely related properties and interacting with the same amylase, also provide a convenient test to compare effects of monomer-monomer and monomer-dimer interactions between enzyme and inhibitor proteins.
Mol Cell Biochem 1977 Dec 29
PMID:A model for the interaction of wheat monomeric and dimeric protein inhibitors with alpha-amylase. 30 60

We have studied the biosynthesis of T4 induced tRNA's upon infection of E. coli BE cells in low phosphate (l.p.) medium (10(-4) M PO---4). Under out experimental conditions the onset of phage DNA synthesis occurs about 15 min after infection, while the first intracellular phage appears one hour later. Amounts of newly synthesized DNA and phage burst size are equivalent to the values obtained in standard (M9) medium (10(-1) M PO---4). We present evidence that the synthesis of mature tRNA's and of at least one dimeric precursor drastically declines 20 min after infection. In addition we show that T4 induced tRNA molecules are stable and that the triphosphate nucleoside precursor pool does not change significantly during infection. Therefore we conclude that T4 induce tRNA molecules behave similarly to other early gene products.
Mol Gen Genet 1977 Sep 21
PMID:Regulation of the intracellular concentration of T4 induced tRNA. 33 17

A modified procedure for the purification of E. coli galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (E.C. 2.7.6.12) was developed which reproducibly gives pure enzyme. The purified enzyme was shown to be a dimeric protein with a subunit molecular weight of 41,000 and its amino acid composition and content of free sulfhydryl groups were determined. The N-terminal and C-terminal amino acid sequences were found to be NH2-thr-gln-phe-asn-pro-val-asp and -ser(val leu)-ala-COOH respectively. This N-terminal sequence allowed the identification of the start of the transferase gene in the DNA sequence determined by GRINDLEY. Furthermore it appears to define a nine base intercistronic region between the epimerase and transferase genes.
Mol Cell Biochem 1979 Feb 09
PMID:E. coli galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase: N-terminal and C-terminal sequences. 38 9

3-Amino-1-chloro-indolwbutan-2-one (Trp-CH2Cl) was synthesized to be used for labeling the active site of tryptophanyl-tRNA-synthetase. Trp-CH2Cl irreversibly inhibits the beef pancreas tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase activity. The inhibition rate was found to exhibit saturation concentration dependence typical for an affinity reagent. L-tryptophan and L-tryptophanyl adenylate protect the enzyme from inhibition. To determine the stoichiometry of inhibitor--protein binding 3H-label from NaB3H4 was incorporated into the modified enzyme. The molar ratio of inhibitor residues incorporated into the modified enzyme (dimeric molecule) is approximately 2. When one of the subunits of the enzyme was reversibly protected with relatively stable tryptophanyl adenylate, the modification of this enzyme led to the blocking of the other subunit (so called "one-site" enzyme). Some properties of the "one-site" enzyme obtained were studied.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Affinity modification of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase by an alkylating L-tryptophan analog]. 54 76


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