Kimball M E, Soll D
Nucleic Acids Res. 1974 Dec;1(12):1713-20.
Phenylalanine tRNA from Mycoplasma sp. (Kid) was purified and characterized. The tRNA can be aminoacylated by phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase from both Mycoplasma and E. coli. In a tRNA-dependent cell-free E. coli amino acid incorporating system programmed with poly U pure Mycoplasma tRNA(Phe) was fully active in promoting phenylalanine incorporation, even in direct competition with homologous E. coli tRNA(Phe). Since the Mycoplasma tRNA lacks isopentenyladenosine, or any related hypermodified nucleoside, it appears that the presence of such nucleosides in tRNA is not an absolute requirement for protein synthesis.
对来自支原体属(Kid株)的苯丙氨酸转运核糖核酸(tRNA)进行了纯化和特性分析。该tRNA可被来自支原体和大肠杆菌的苯丙氨酰-tRNA合成酶氨酰化。在以聚尿苷酸编程的依赖于tRNA的无细胞大肠杆菌氨基酸掺入系统中,纯的支原体tRNA(Phe)在促进苯丙氨酸掺入方面完全具有活性,即使在与同源的大肠杆菌tRNA(Phe)直接竞争时也是如此。由于支原体tRNA缺乏异戊烯基腺苷或任何相关的超修饰核苷,因此似乎tRNA中此类核苷的存在并非蛋白质合成的绝对必要条件。