Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 25, Issue 17 3503-3507, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press
I Hayashi, G Kawai and K Watanabe
By replacing a stretch of five A-U base pairs in the acceptor stem with G-C
pairs, mitochondrial tRNA-SerGCU lacking a D arm could be expressed in
Escherichia coli cells in considerable amounts. The expressed tRNA with no
modified nucleoside was serylated in vitro with the mitochondrial enzyme.
The tRNASerGCU derivatives carrying identity elements for alanine tRNA and
the related anticodons were expressed. However, this expression event did
not affect cell growth, probably because the expression started from the
late log phase, which suggests that these mitochondrial tRNA derivatives
are not involved in E.coli gene expression systems. Although there are some
restrictions in the secondary structure of tRNAs that can be expressed by
this method, it could prove useful for preparing large amounts of
heterologous tRNAs in vivo.
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Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.
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