Mutants of Escherichia coli defective only in the biosynthesis of 5-methyluridine (ribothymidine) in their transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) were employed to investigate whether phage T4 induces its own tRNA(mV)methylase and whether T4-specific tRNA contains 5-methyluridine. The amounts of other methylated derivatives in the T4-specific tRNA were also determined. The results establish that T4-sp...

A short treatment with ethylenedinitrilotetraacetic acid to permeabilize bacteria for various antibiotics or treatment with the ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis inhibitor rifampin causes a slow degradation of 50S and 30S ribosomal particles and of the corresponding 23S and 16S ribosomal RNA species (about 25 percent in 1 h). The effects are additive such that the decay is about 50 percent/h if ...

Several transfer RNA precursors which accumulate in a strain of Escherichia coli temperature-sensitive for RNase P have been described. These precursors range from 135 to 690 nucleotides in length. Their tRNA content has been determined by digestion of the precursors to 4 S RNA, followed by Sanger fingerprint analysis of the purified 4 S material. Identification of some of these tRNAs, as well ...

from several normal and cancerous tissues were studied by means of the newly developed reverse-phase chromatography system, RP-5. Tyrosyl transfer RNA from normal rat, mouse, and hamster livers emerged as a single peak. All three species exhibited identical profiles. Tyrosyl transfer RNA from Escherichia coli required a considerably higher NaCl concentra tion for elution from the RP-5 column. T...

Isoaccepting transfer RNA species for several amino acids were fractionated by reverse phase column chromatography. Transfer RNA from dividing cells of pea (Pisum sativum) root was compared to that from nondividing cells, and no relative quantitative or qualitative differences were noted for the transfer RNA species for leucine, lysine, proline, threonine, methionine, serine, and phenylalanine....