Enzymatic conversion of adenosine to inosine in the wobble position of yeast tRNAAsp: the dependence on the anticodon sequence.
AUTOR(ES)
Haumont, E
RESUMO
We have investigated the specificity of the tRNA modifying enzyme that transforms the adenosine at position 34 (wobble position) into inosine in the anticodon of several tRNAs. For this purpose, we have constructed sixteen recombinants of yeast tRNAAsp harboring an AXY anticodon (where X or Y was one of the four nucleotides A, G, C or U). This was done by enzymatic manipulations in vitro of the yeast tRNAAsp, involving specific hydrolysis with S1-nuclease and RNAase A, phosphorylation with T4-polynucleotide kinase and ligation with T4-RNA ligase: it allowed us to replace the normal anticodon GUC by trinucleotides AXY and to introduce simultaneously a 32P-labelled phosphate group between the uridine at position 33 and the newly inserted adenosine at position 34. Each of these 32P-labelled AXY "anticodon-substituted" yeast tRNAAsp were microinjected into the cytoplasm of Xenopus laevis oocytes and assayed for their capacity to act as substrates for the A34 to I34 transforming enzyme. Our results indicate that: 1/ A34 in yeast tRNAAsp harboring the arginine anticodon ACG or an AXY anticodon with a purine at position 35 but with A, G or C but not U at position 36 were efficiently modified into I34; 2/ all yeast tRNAAsp harboring an AXY anticodon with a pyrimidine at position 35 (except ACG) or uridine at position 36 were not modified at all. This demonstrates a strong dependence on the anticodon sequence for the A34 to I34 transformation in yeast tRNAAsp by the putative cytoplasmic adenosine deaminase of Xenopus laevis oocytes.
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