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B Wittmann-Liebold

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Determination of the amino-acid sequence of the ribosomal protein S8 of Escherichia coli.

The primary structure of protein S8 from the 30-S ribosomal subunit of Escherichia coli was determined mainly by automatic Edman degradation using a modified Beckman protein sequenator and the solid-phase sequentor of Laursen. The complete sequence, containing 109 amino acids, was derived by analysing peptides from tryptic, chymotryptic, thermolysin, staphylococcal protease and cyanogen bromide digestion of the protein. The amino acid composition was found to be (aspartic acid)6, (asparagine)3, (threonine)5, (serine)5, (glutamic acid )7, (glutamine)6, (proline)5, (glycine)6, (alanine)11, (valine)9, (methionine)4, (isoleucine)7, (leucine)9, (tyrosine)3, (phenylalanine)3, (lysine)11, (arginine)8, (cysteine)1. S8 is a basic protein and binds to the 16-S RNA; knowledge of its sequence is necessary for a detailed study of its interaction with the ribosomal RNA.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Primary and tertiary structure of the principal human adenylate kinase.

1. Human adenylate kinase (isoenzyme AK-1-1) from skeletal muscle is a single polypeptide chain of 194 amino-acid residues with an acetylmethionine at the N-terminus and a lysine at the C-terminus. 2. The primary structure of the enzyme was determined: Ac-Met-Glu-Glu-Lys-Leu-Lys-Lys-Thr-Lys-Ile-Ile-Phe-Val-Val-Gly-Gly-Pro-Gly-Ser-Gly-Lys-Gly-Thr-Gln-Cys-Glu-Lys-Ile-Val-Gln-Lys-Tyr-Gly-Tyr-Thr-His-Leu-Ser-Thr-Gly-Asp-Leu-Leu-Arg-Ser-Glu-Val-Ser-Ser-Gly-Ser-Ala-Arg-Gly-Lys-Lys-Leu-Ser-Glu-Ile-Met-Glu-Lys-Gly-Gln-Leu-Val-Pro-Leu-Glu-Thr-Val-Leu-Asp-Met-Leu-Arg-Asp-Ala-Met-Val-Ala-Lys-Val-Asn-Thr-Ser-Lys-Gly-Phe-Leu-Ile-Asp-Gly-Tyr-Pro-Arg-Glu-Val-Gln-Gln-Gly-Glu-Glu-Phe-Glu-Arg-Arg-Ile-Gly-Gln-Pro-Thr-Leu-Leu-Leu-Tyr-Val-Asp-Ala-Gly-Pro-Glu-Thr-Met-Thr-Arg-Arg-Leu-Leu-Lys-Arg-Gly-Glu-Thr-Ser-Gly-Arg-Val-Asp-Asn-Glu-Glu-Thr-Ile-Lys-Lys-Arg-Leu-Glu-Thr-Tyr-Tyr-Lys-Ala-Thr-Glu-Pro-Val-Ile-Ala-Phe-Tyr-Glu-Lys-Arg-Gly-Ile-Val-Arg-Lys-Val-Asn-Ala-Glu-Gly-Ser-Val-Asp-Glu-Val-Phe-Ser-Gln-Val-Cys-Thr-His-Leu-Asp-Ala-Leu-Lys. 3. When the primary structure of the human enzyme was fitted to the electron density map of porcine adenylate kinase, all nine amino acids which are different in the homologous enzymes from pig and man were located on the surface of the molecule. 4. Precession photographs of crystalline human and of crystalline porcine adenylate kinase corroborated the result that the polypeptide chains of the two enzymes are folded in a closely related manner. 5. The structure of human adenylate kinase incorporates the so-called nucleotide-binding domain which is present in a wide variety of proteins in nature. Some implications of this phenomenom for the molecular biology and the molecular pharmacology of man are discussed.

Adenylate Kinase↗

Primary structure of protein L10 from the large subunit of Escherichia coli ribosomes.

The complete primary structure of protein L10 from the large subunit of the Escherichia coli ribosome has been determined. L10 is composed of 165 residues and has the amino acid composition: Asp6, Asn3, Thr9, Ser6, Glu14, Gln4, Pro5, Gly9, Ala33, Val15, Met5, Ile5, Leu15, Tyr3, Phe6, His1, Lys12, Arg13 and Cys1. The molecular weight of L10 is 17 738. The amino acid sequence was determined by a combination of automated Edman degradation of the intact protein in a modified Beckman sequentor and sequencing peptides obtained from digestions with trypsin, themolysin, Staphylococcus aureus protease and chymotrypsin. Further information was obtained from cyanogen bromide fragments and peptides resulting from digestion with trypsin after protection of the epsilon-amino groups of the lysine residues with exo-cis-3,6-endoxo-delta4-tetrahydrophthalic anhydride (ETPA).

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Studies on the primary structure of 14 proteins from the large subunit of Escherichia coli ribosomes with an improved protein sequenator and with mass spectrometry.

Fourteen proteins from the large subunit of Escherichia coli ribosomes were analyzed in an improved sequenator. In addition to our previously described modifications of a Beckman sequenator, new valves which work free of a dead volume were constructed. By this and the previous improvements (e.g., a new vacuum system with a recorder, cool traps, automatic conversion) much better results were obtained than before. It was even possible to use (in addition to the standard methods, e.g., thin-layer chromatography and amino acid analysis) mass spectrometry without preceding gas chromatography for identification of the released PTH amino acids. Our experience with the various methods, especially mass spectrometry, is described and the techniques are compared. The results obtained by the described methods on the amino acid sequences of the 14 ribosomal proteins are summarized.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

The primary structure of the 5s rRNA binding protein L25 of Escherichia coli ribosomes.

The primary structure of protein L25 from the large subunit of Escherichia coli ribosomes was determined by isolation and analysis of peptides obtained after cleavage of the protein with trypsin, thermolysin and Staphylococcus protease as well as by Edman degradation of the intact protein and of a CNBr peptide. The complete amino acid sequence is shown in Fig. 4. There are sequence homologies within protein L25 (Table 6) as well as between protein L25 and other ribosomal proteins (Table 5).

Amino Acid Sequence↗

Determination of the complete amino acid sequence of protein S21 from Escherichia coli ribosomes.

Protein S21 was digested with trypsin before and after maleylation, with chymotrypsin, thermolysin and a glutamyl-specific protease. The resulting peptides were isolated and their amino acid composition determined. The amino acid sequences of selected peptides were determined either by the manual subtractive Edman method or by the dansyl-Edman procedure. Additional information was obtained from the automatic Edman degradation of the whole protein in a modified Sequenator. All these results combined yielded the sequence shown in Fig. 1. Protein S21 consists of 70 amino acids (Asp1,Asn2,Thr3,Ser2,Glu8,Pro3,Gly1,Ala9,Val6,Cys1,Ile1,Leu4,Tyr2,Phe3,His1,Lys9 and Arg14). It contains neither Met nor Trp. The molecular weight amounts to 8359. Clustering of basic amino acids is observed in five regions. We also include a prediction for regions with alpha-helices and with beta-sheets.

Amino Acid Sequence↗