Purification and some properties of valyl ribonucleic acid synthetase from yeast.

نویسندگان

  • U Lagerkvist
  • J Waldenström
چکیده

The mechanism by which an aminoacyl ribonucleic acid synthetase recognizes its transfer ribonucleic acid substrate constitutes one of the central problems in biochemical genetics. Obviously this problem cannot be solved without a thorough understanding of the structure of both enzyme and substrate. Although work on the structure of tRNAr has yielded signal results during the last few years (l-3), very little progress has been made in the elucidation of enzyme structures. On the other hand, several aminoacyl-RNA synthetases have been obtained in highly purified form (4-15), and studies with some of them have revealed interesting information regarding the formation of enzyme-substrate complexes (16-22). In this paper we describe the purification and some properties of one of these enzymes, valyl-RNA synthetase from yeast.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of biological chemistry

دوره 242 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1967