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. 1985 Jan;82(2):347–350. doi: 10.1073/pnas.82.2.347

A selenium-containing nucleoside at the first position of the anticodon in seleno-tRNAGlu from Clostridium sticklandii.

W M Ching, B Alzner-DeWeerd, T C Stadtman
PMCID: PMC397035  PMID: 3918309

Abstract

In previous studies, the single selenonucleoside component of a selenium-containing tRNAGlu isolated from Clostridium sticklandii has been shown to be 5-methyl-aminomethyl-2-selenouridine. Here, we show that this selenonucleoside is most likely located at the "wobble" position of the anticodon of the clostridial seleno-tRNAGlu. Nuclease T1 digestion of this seleno-tRNAGlu generated one major selenium-containing oligonucleotide (25 bases long). The selenium-containing residue within this oligonucleotide was located by sequence analysis of the oligonucleotide before and after removal of selenium by treatment with cyanogen bromide. The sequence of this oligonucleotide, A-A-C-C-G-C-C-C-U-U+-U-C-A+C-G-G-C-G-G-U-A-A-C-A-G, is homologous to that of the Escherichia coli tRNAGlu2 from residues 27 to 50, including the anticodon region and the variable loop, except that the E. coli tRNA has 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thiouridine instead of the selenonucleoside.

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