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Nucleic Acids Research, 2000, Vol. 28, No. 12 E64-e64
© 2000 Oxford University Press

New chromatographic and biochemical strategies for quick preparative isolation of tRNA

Edmundo Cayama, Antonio Yépez, Fernando Rotondo, Eduardo Bandeira, Ana C. Ferreras and Francisco J. Triana-Alonso*

Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas (BIOMED), Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo, Núcleo Aragua, Final Avenida Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, La Morita II, Maracay 2103, Estado Aragua, Venezuela

A combination of hydrophobic chromatography on phenyl-Sepharose and reversed phase HPLC was used to purify individual tRNAs with high specific activity. The efficiency of chromatographic separation was enhanced by biochemical manipulations of the tRNA molecule, such as aminoacylation, formylation of the aminoacyl moiety and enzymatic deacylation. Optimal combinations are presented for three different cases. (i) tRNAPhe from Escherichia coli. This species was isolated by a combination of low pressure phenyl-Sepharose hydrophobic chromato­graphy with RP-HPLC. (ii) tRNAIle from E.coli. Aminoacylation increases the retention time for this tRNA in RP-HPLC. The recovered acylated intermediate is deacylated by reversion of the aminoacylation reaction and submitted to a second RP-HPLC run, in which deacylated tRNAIle is recovered with high specific activity. (iii) tRNAiMet from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The aminoacylated form of this tRNA is unstable. To increase stability, the aminoacylated form was formylated using E.coli enzymes and, after one RP-HPLC step, the formylated derivative was deacylated using peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase from E.coli. The tRNAiMet recovered after a second RP-HPLC run exhibited electrophoretic homogeneity and high specific activity upon aminoacylation. These combinations of chromatographic separation and biochemical modification can be readily adapted to the large-scale isolation of any particular tRNA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +58 43 71 36 85; Fax: +58 43 71 34 56; Email: biomed@telcel.net.ve


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