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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
Dry seeds of Cucumis sativus L. were found to contain a heat-sensitive endoribonuclease of a novel type which we have named cusativin. It was purified to apparent electrophoretic homogeneity by chromatography through S-Sepharose Fast Flow, Sephadex G-75, CM-Sepharose, Superdex 75-FPLC (fast protein liquid chromatography) and Mono S-FPLC. It is a single unglycosylated polypeptide chain with an apparent molecular mass (M(r)) of 22900. Polyclonal anti-cusativin antibodies raised in rabbits only reacted with melonin, the translation inhibitor from Cucumis melo L. Functional, Western blot and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analyses indicated that cusativin is present in the coat and cotyledons of dry seeds, but not in embryonic axes. Cusativin is accumulated in maturing seeds. By contrast, after seed germination there is degradation of the cusativin present in cotyledons but not that present in the seed coat. The preference of cusativin for polynucleotide cleavage was poly(C) >> poly(A) acids, poly(U) and poly(G) being unaffected by cusativin. Under the denaturing conditions used for RNA sequencing, cusativin acted only on poly(C). Cusativin proved to be useful for RNA sequencing, in particular, complementing the data obtained with RNase CL3. Cusativin represents a new class of plant RNase and, as far as we are aware, is the first plant enzyme that shows cleavage specificity for cytidine under the denaturing conditions of RNA sequencing.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
B
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0032-0935
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
194
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
328-38
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Amino Acids, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Antibodies, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Chromatography, Gel, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Chromatography, Ion Exchange, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Cucumis sativus, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Cytidine, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Endoribonucleases, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Glycosylation, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Peptide Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-RNA, Ribosomal, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Seeds, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:7765423-Temperature
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Cusativin, a new cytidine-specific ribonuclease accumulated in seeds of Cucumis sativus L.
pubmed:affiliation
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't