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Comparative Study
. 1975 Dec;16(6):1608-14.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.16.6.1608-1614.1975.

tRNA's associated with the 70S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus

L C Waters, B C Mullin, E G Bailiff, R A Popp
Comparative Study

tRNA's associated with the 70S RNA of avian myeloblastosis virus

L C Waters et al. J Virol. 1975 Dec.

Abstract

The distribtuion of various amino acid tRNA's in the 4S RNA components of avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) and in 4S RNA prepared from chicken cmbryo cells, chicken myeloblasts, and chicken livers was determined. This was done by aminoacylating the 4S RNA samples with a mixture of 17 radioactive amino acids and subsequently identifying the tRNA-accepted amino acids on an amino acid analyzer after deacylation. In embryo cells, myeloblasts, and liver, tRNA's accepting all 1m amino acids were demonstrated. "Free" AMV 4S RNA was characterized by very low quantities of glutamate, valine, and tyrosine tRNA's. RNAs accepting all 17 amino acids, with the exception of tyrosine, were shown to be present in the "70S-associated" 4S RNA which dissociates at 60 C. The bulk of the 70S-associated 4S RNA was dissociated at 60 C at low ionic strength with a concomitant conversion of 70S RNA to 35S RNA. The residual associated 4S RNA was dissociated by further heating of the 35S RNA to 80 C; tryptophan tRNA accounted for greater than 90% of the total amino acid accepting activity in this fraction. The results support other studies in suggesting that tryptophan tRNA may serve as a primer for DNA synthesis in AMV, as has been shown in Rous sarcoma virus.

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