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Nucleic Acids Research, 1983, Vol. 11, No. 10 3269-3282
© 1983

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Enrichment and characterization of the mRNAs of four aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases from yeast

Mustapha Sellami*, Benoi`t Rether, Jean Gangloff, Jran-Pierre Ebel and Jacques Bonnet

Laboratoire de Biochimie, Institut de Biologie Mole`culaire et Cellulaird du CNRS, Universiteè Louis Pasteur 15, rue R.Descarte, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France

*To whom correspondence should be sent

Received January 4, 1983. Revised April 7, 1983. Accepted April 7, 1983.

We have partially purified the messenger RNAs for yeast arginyl-, aspartyl-, valyl-, {alpha} and ß subunits of phenylal anyl-tRNA synthetases in order to study their biosynthesis and ultimately, to isolate their genes. Sucrose gradient fractionation of poly U-Sepharose selected mRNAs resulted in a ten fold enrichment of the in vitro translation activity of these mRNAs. The translation products of messenger RNAs for arginyl- and valyl-tRNA synthetases have the same molecular weight as the purified enzymes ; translation of aspartyl-tRNA synthetase messenger RNA yielded a 68 kD molecular weight poly-peptide (while the purified cristal lisable enzyme appears as a 64-66 kD doublet, which, as we showed is a proteolysis product). The translation of the mRNAs for a and 6 phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase gave polypeptides having the same molecular weight as those obtained from the purified enzyme, but the major translation products are slightly heavier, indicating that they may be translated as precursors. As estimated from centrifugation experiments mRNAs of arginyl-, aspartyl-, a and 8 subunits of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase were 1700-2000 nucleotides long, indicating that a and 8 are translated from two different mRNAs


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