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T C Hall

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PubMed1972

Enzyme-mediated binding of tyrosine to brome-mosaic-virus ribonucleic acid.

Incubation of tyrosine with the RNA from brome-mosaic-virus under conditions favourable for aminoacylation of tRNA resulted in binding of tyrosine to the viral RNA. Sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation showed that tyrosine binds to three and probably to all four of the viral RNA components. The bound amino acid was readily released in mild alkaline solutions. Of 20 amino acids tested, only tyrosine was found to bind. The maximum extent of binding observed was 0.58mol of tyrosine/mol of brome-mosaic-virus RNA.

Amino Acids↗
PubMed1971

Factors controlling aminoacyl-transfer-ribonucleic acid synthesis in vitro by a plant system.

1. Factors affecting aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis in vitro by cell-free preparations from bean leaves were investigated. 2. Evidence was obtained that optimum concentrations as well as correct ratios of Mg(2+) and ATP are required for aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis in the bean-leaf system. 3. The results indicated that pH is a controlling factor having differential effects on the formation of individual aminoacyl-tRNA species. The possible micro-regulatory function of pH in protein synthesis in vivo is discussed with special reference to alanyl-tRNA formation. 4. Very low rates of alanine-stimulated pyrophosphate exchange were observed in the absence of tRNA. This observation is discussed relative to proposals about the mechanism of aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗
PubMed1971

Extensive charging of transfer ribonucleic acid by bean leaf extracts in vitro.

1. Phenol was effectively removed from aqueous extracts of RNA by chromatography on Sephadex G-50. 2. Elution of tRNA from Sephadex G-50 columns at pH7.6 was shown to remove 91% of the endogenously bound amino acids. 3. tRNA prepared without recourse to ethanolic precipitation was capable of accepting much greater amounts of amino acids than could redissolved samples of precipitated tRNA. 4. Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase enzymes were partially purified with calcium phosphate gel. Elution of enzymes from the gel at pH6.5 yielded a fraction having phenylalanine- and alanine-charging activity, but no aspartate-, lysine- or proline-charging activity, whereas elution at pH7.6 gave a fraction having aspartate-, lysine- and proline-charging activity but no phenylalanine- or alanine-charging activity. 5. By using partially synthetase enzymes and tRNA eluted from DEAE-Sephadex A-50 columns, 52% of the theoretical maximum of aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis was obtained in vitro.

Alanine↗