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    • Ammonium ions prevent methylation of uridine to ribothymidine inAzotobacter vinelandii tRNA

      P Ajitkumar Joseph D Cherayil

      Volume 10 Issue 2 June 1986 pp 267-276

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    • Keywords

       

      Ribothymidine; uridine methylation; tRNA modification; Azotobacter vinelandii tRNA

    • Abstract

       

      It was shown that tRNA fromAzotobacter vinelandii grown in the presence of ammonium chloride lacks ribothymidine while that grown in the absence of the ammonium salt contains this modified nucleoside. [32P]-Labelled tRNA from this organism grown in a medium containing the ammonium salt was digested with RNase T1 and the pseudouridinecontaining tetranucleotide, common to all tRNAs was isolated and analysed for the nucleoside replacing the ribothymidine. It was found to be uridine. Cells previously labelled with [32P]-phosphate in the ammonium salt medium were washed and incubated in the ammonium saltfree medium to test whether ribothymidine would be formed upon removal of the ammonium ions. Methylation of the uridine did not take place.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      P Ajitkumar1 2 Joseph D Cherayil1

      1. Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, India
      2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York - 10461, USA

    • Dates

       
      Published
      June 1986
      Manuscript received
      28 February 1986
      Manuscript revised
      28 April 1986

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