A 45-kDa ribonuclease (RNase) was purified from dried fruiting bodies of the wild mushroom Amanita hemibapha. It was adsorbed on DEAE-cellulose, S-sepharose, and finally purified on Superdex 75. The RNase exhibited maximal RNase activity at pH 5 and in a temperature range between 60-70°C. It demonstrated no ribonucleolytic activity toward four polyhomoribonucleotides. The amino acid sequence an...

Here we report on the expression and function of RNase 7, one of the final RNase A superfamily ribonucleases identified in the human genome sequence. The human RNase 7 gene is expressed in various somatic tissues including the liver, kidney, skeletal muscle and heart. Recombinant RNase 7 is ribonucleolytically active against yeast tRNA, as expected from the presence of eight conserved cysteines...

This study characterizes the S6m-haplotype, a mutated S6-haplotype with an altered HindIII cut site, of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus). Inheritance and pollination studies of S-haplotypes from reciprocal crosses between 'Erdi Botermo' (EB; S4S6mSa) and 'Rheinische Schattenmorelle' (RS; S6SaSbSc) revealed that the S6m-haplotype conferred unilateral incompatibility with a non-functional pistil comp...

Specific regions of the polypeptide sequence of pancreatic ribonuclease have been altered by chemical modification and by limited proteolytic digestion in attempts to implicate specific covalent portions of the molecule in the structure and stabilization of the active center. Digestion of the native molecule with trypsin at elevated temperatures has been shown to remove portions of the chain wi...

Pancreatic ribonuclease A (EC 3.1.27.5, RNase) is, perhaps, the best-studied enzyme of the 20th century. It was isolated by René Dubos, crystallized by Moses Kunitz, sequenced by Stanford Moore and William Stein, and synthesized in the laboratory of Bruce Merrifield, all at the Rockefeller Institute/University. It has proven to be an excellent model system for many different types of experiment...

Specific regions of the polypeptide sequence of pancreatic ribonuclease have been altered by chemical modification and by limited proteolytic digestion in attempts to implicate specific covalent portions of the molecule in the structure and stabilization of the active center. Digestion of the native molecule with trypsin at elevated temperatures has been shown to remove portions of the chain wi...

The circular dichroism spectra of pancreatic ribonuclease A, RNase S, and RNase S-protein have been measured in the wave length interval 198 to 300 mp under various conditions. The circular dichroism spectra of RNase A and S are very similar, possibly identical, over this entire wave length interval at neutral pH. That of RNase S-protein is substantially different. It is shown that the portion ...