Abstract
Antibodies to the minor nucleoside N6,N6-dimethyladenosine have been used to map a unique location of the nucleoside in the small subunit of the Escherichia coli ribosome. Antibodies were induced in rabbits by a nucleoside-bovine albumin conjugate and shown to be highly specific for the dimethyladenosine hapten. The antibodies were shown to interact with 30S ribosomal subunits from strain PR7, but not with subunits from its mutant strain TPR201, which is resistant to kasugamycin and lacks the two successive residues of dimethyladenosine normally found near the 3'-end of E. coli 16S ribosomal RNA. Electron micrographs of strain PR7 subunits, crosslinked by single IgG molecules, show a single binding site on the surface of the ribosome. This binding site is consistent with observations relating the 3'-end of the ribosomal RNA, binding of initiation factor IF-3 and messenger RNA, and mapping of specific ribosomal proteins.
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