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. 1984 Mar;157(3):795–801. doi: 10.1128/jb.157.3.795-801.1984

Polyadenylated mRNA from the photosynthetic procaryote Rhodospirillum rubrum.

P K Majumdar, B A McFadden
PMCID: PMC215329  PMID: 6199342

Abstract

Total cellular RNA extracted from Rhodospirillum rubrum cultured in butyrate-containing medium under strict photosynthetic conditions to the stationary phase of growth has been fractionated on an oligodeoxythymidylic acid-cellulose column into polyadenylated [poly(A)+] RNA and poly(A)- RNA fractions. The poly(A)+ fraction was 9 to 10% of the total bulk RNA isolated. Analysis of the poly(A)+ RNA on a denaturing urea-polyacrylamide gel revealed four sharp bands of RNA distributed in heterodisperse fashion between 16S and 9S. Similar fractionation of the poly(A)- RNA resulted in the separation of 23, 16, and 5S rRNAs and 4S tRNA. Poly(A)+ fragments isolated after combined digestion with pancreatic A and T1 RNases and analysis by denaturing gel electrophoresis demonstrated two major components of 80 and 100 residues. Alkaline hydrolysis of the nuclease-resistant, purified residues showed AMP-rich nucleotides. Through the use of snake venom phosphodiesterase, poly(A) tracts were placed at the 3' end of poly(A)+ RNA. Stimulation of [3H]leucine incorporation into hot trichloroacetic acid-precipitable polypeptides in a cell-free system from wheat germ primed by the poly(A)+ RNA mixture was found to be 220-fold higher than that for poly(A)- RNAs (on a unit mass basis), a finding which demonstrated that poly(A)+ RNAs in R. rubrum are mRNAs. Gel electrophoretic analysis of the translation mixture revealed numerous 3H-labeled products including a major band (Mr, 52,000). The parent protein was precipitated by antibodies to ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase and comprised 6.5% of the total translation products.

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