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. 1980 Sep 25;8(18):4111–4124. doi: 10.1093/nar/8.18.4111

3' Terminal labelling of RNA of RNA with beta-32P-pyrophosphate group and its application to the sequence analysis of 5S RNA from Streptomyces griseus.

A Simoncsits
PMCID: PMC324222  PMID: 6159585

Abstract

Nucleotide pyrophosphate transferase isolated from Streptomyces griseus is used to transfer pyrophosphate group from gamma-32P-ATP to the 3'-OH of tRNA, generating a strictly terminal label at its 3' end. Using yeast tRNAPhe as model compound, it is demonstrated that the labelled molecule is suitable for rapid gel sequencing by both enzymatic and chemical methods. RNA molecules terminated by pyrimidine nucleoside are poor pyrophosphate acceptors. To label RNAs of this kind, first guanosine 5'-phosphate 3'-(beta-32P)-pyrophosphate (pGpp) is prepared from gamma-32P-ATP and GMP by nucleotide pyrophosphate transferase. pGpp is then ligated to the 3' end of RNA by T4 RNA ligase. The complete nucleotide sequence of 5S RNA from Streptomyces griseus is established by rapid gel sequencing methods performed on 3'-(beta-32P)-pyrophosphate labelled molecule.

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