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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-7-2
pubmed:abstractText
The product of the selB gene from Escherichia coli is required for co-translational insertion of selenocysteine into protein. To make the SELB protein accessible to biochemical analysis, the protein was purified from cells that overexpressed the selB gene from a phage T7 promoter plasmid. It was calculated that the overproduced SELB protein was purified 20-fold. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the purified protein was determined, and it confirmed that the initiation codon of selB mRNA translation overlaps the stop codon of the preceding selA gene by 4 bases. Structural similarity between SELB and elongation factors was demonstrated by limited proteolysis of SELB by trypsin. The cleavage sites within SELB were identified by N-terminal sequencing of the two proteolytic products. The position in the SELB protein of the major cleavage site was homologous to a tryptic cleavage site which is characteristic for elongation factors. Immunological analysis showed that the levels of SELB are equivalent in aerobically and anaerobically grown cells; the amount of the protein was estimated to be approximately 1100 copies/E. coli cell. Upon fractionation of cell extracts, SELB was found to be partially associated with the ribosomes. The results therefore indicate that SELB is the first known elongation factor-like protein that has specificity for a particular charged tRNA.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bacterial Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Codon, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cysteine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptide Elongation Factor Tu, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptide Elongation Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptide Fragments, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, Messenger, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SelB protein, Bacteria, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Selenium, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Selenocysteine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Selenoproteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Trypsin
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
265
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9346-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Codon, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Cysteine, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Immunoblotting, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Peptide Elongation Factor Tu, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Peptide Elongation Factors, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Selenium, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Selenocysteine, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Selenoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-T-Phages, pubmed-meshheading:2140572-Trypsin
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Purification and biochemical characterization of SELB, a translation factor involved in selenoprotein synthesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie der Universität München, Federal Republic of Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't