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L C Waters

Publications and source records attributed to L C Waters.

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PubMed1984

Natural variation in the expression of cytochrome P-450 and dimethylnitrosamine demethylase in Drosophila.

Electrophoresis of Drosophila microsomes resolves two major heme-containing protein bands with apparent molecular weights of 59,290 (band a) and 55,750 (band b). The hemoproteins in these two bands can account for most of the cytochrome P-450 in the organism. Band a is present in all strains examined: band b is not. Dimethylnitrosamine demethylase, a P-450 enzyme, is a component of band b.

Animals↗
PubMed1983

Studies on the relationship between dimethylnitrosamine-demethylase activity and dimethylnitrosamine-dependent mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster.

The relationship between dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) demethylase activity and DMN-induced mutagenesis was investigated in Drosophila melanogaster. The activity of DMN-demethylase was at least 10-fold greater in the Hikone-R strain than in three other Drosophila strains. However, the sex-linked recessive lethal (SLRL) mutations induced by DMN in the four strains differed by less than 2-fold. Several possibilities to explain the lack of correlation between DMN-demethylase activity and DMN-induced mutations were tested and eliminated. They include: (i) the presence of inhibitors of DMN-demethylase in extracts of low-activity strains, (ii) a sex bias in the Hikone-R strain in which the enzyme activity is confined to the females, (iii) the possibility that DMN treatment induces DMN-demethylase activity in the low-activity strains and (iv) the possibility that Hikone-R has a much more efficient DNA repair system than the other strains. The results are discussed in terms of what is known about the role of DMN-demethylase in the metabolic activation of DMN in other systems.

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PubMed1982

Studies on the function of the non-primer tRNAs associated with the 70 S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus.

Significant amounts of three tRNAs are associated with the 70 S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV). The temperatures at which they are half dissociated from the 70 S RNA in 50 mM NaCl and their respective quantities relative to 35 S RNA are: tRNAArg, 51 degree C, 1.6; tRNALys, 57 degree C, 0.7 and tRNATrp, 76 degree C, 1.0. Possible functions for the non-primer tRNAs (tRNAArg and tRNALys) were evaluated by determining the effect of their thermal dissociation on: (a) conversion of 70 S to 35 S RNA, (b) capacity of 70 S and/or 35 S RNA to be translated in vitro, and (c) capacity of 70 S and/or 35 S RNA to be reverse transcribed in vitro. Conversion of 70 S to 35 S RNA occurred with a tm of 56 degree C and is consistent with the hypothesis that tRNALys might be involved in joining two 35 S RNA subunits to form the 70 S RNA complex. There was no indication that the association of either tRNAArg or tRNALys influenced the rate or quality of translation of 70 S or 35 S RNA. A decrease in the rate at which 70 S RNA is transcribed occurs in parallel with the dissociation of tRNAArg and tRNALys.

Arginine↗
PubMed1980

Differential association of transfer RNAs with the genomes of murine, feline and primate retroviruses.

The tRNAs that are bound to the genomic RNAs of several murine, feline, and primate retroviruses have been identified. Transfer RNAs were divided into those loosely bound and those tightly bound by stepwise thermal dissociation of the 70 S RNA. They were then identified and semiquantitated by aminoacylation. Proline tRNA is the most tenaciously bound tRNA in several strains of murine leukemia virus, two strains of feline leukemia virus, and the primate viruses simian sarcoma, baboon endogenous, and gibbon ape lymphoma. In the feline xenotropic virus, RD-114, tRNAGly is enriched in the most tightly bound fraction. In Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, as in the murine mammary tumor virus, tRNALys is the tRNA most tenaciously bound to its genomic RNA. Besides the most tightly associated tRNA, one or more different tRNAs are found in relatively large amounts in association with the 70 S RNA. (For convenience, we refer to the largest RNA ccomplex (50-70 S) isolated from any of the retroviruses studies as '70 S' RNA.) These tRNAs can be distinguished from the most tightly bound tRNA by the fact that they can be dissociated at lower temperatures. However, they occur in the same relative abundance as the tightly bound tRNA.

Genes, Viral↗
PubMed1975

Purification of tryptophan transfer RNA from chick cells and its identity with "spot 1" RNA of Rous sarcoma virus.

Tryptophan transfer RNA from chick cells chromatographs differently in the reversed-phase column chromatographic system 5 depending upon whether it is aminoacylated or not. This property was utilized to prepare pure tryptophan tRNA. Oligonucleotide fingerprints of tryptophan tRNA purified in this manner are identical with those reported for "spot 1" RNA isolated from Rous sarcoma virus.

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PubMed1975

Ability of tryptophan tRNA to hybridize with 35S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus and to prime reverse transcription in vitro.

Selected species of 4S RNA of chick embryo cells will hybridize in vitro with 35S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus. A major tRNA component of the hybridizable 4S RNA is tryptophan tRNA. A hybrid prepared from purified tryptophan tRAN and 35S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus in vitro is an efficient templateprimer for DNA synthesis catalyzed by reverse transcriptase (RNA-dependent DNA polymerase).

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PubMed1975

tRNA's associated with the 70S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus.

The distribtuion of various amino acid tRNA's in the 4S RNA components of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) and in 4S RNA prepared from chicken cmbryo cells, chicken myeloblasts, and chicken livers was determined. This was done by aminoacylating the 4S RNA samples with a mixture of 17 radioactive amino acids and subsequently identifying the tRNA-accepted amino acids on an amino acid analyzer after deacylation. In embryo cells, myeloblasts, and liver, tRNA's accepting all 1m amino acids were demonstrated. "Free" AMV 4S RNA was characterized by very low quantities of glutamate, valine, and tyrosine tRNA's. RNAs accepting all 17 amino acids, with the exception of tyrosine, were shown to be present in the "70S-associated" 4S RNA which dissociates at 60 C. The bulk of the 70S-associated 4S RNA was dissociated at 60 C at low ionic strength with a concomitant conversion of 70S RNA to 35S RNA. The residual associated 4S RNA was dissociated by further heating of the 35S RNA to 80 C; tryptophan tRNA accounted for greater than 90% of the total amino acid accepting activity in this fraction. The results support other studies in suggesting that tryptophan tRNA may serve as a primer for DNA synthesis in AMV, as has been shown in Rous sarcoma virus.

Amino Acids↗