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. 2012 Jun 28;7(6):e39297. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039297

Figure 1. Human TYW2 has the same enzyme activity as its yeast counterpart in Wybutosine (yW) biosynthesis.

Figure 1

(A) Wybutosine (yW) biosynthetic pathway in yeast. The yW base is located adjacent to the anticodon in tRNAPhe. The pathway for yW biosynthesis in yeast has been described earlier [1]. (B) LC/MS analysis of nuclease P1 digested tRNA-Phe obtained from wild type (WT), the TYW2 deletion strain (ΔTYW2), and the deletion strain transformed with pYES2/hTYW2 (pYES2/hTYW2 in ΔTYW2). The panels show mass chromatograms detecting MH+ (m/z 838) of yWpA, BH2+ (m/z 377) of yW, MH+ (m/z 651) of yW-187pA, MH+ (m/z 322) of yW-187 and BH2+ (m/z 190) of yW-187, respectively.