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. 1987 Oct;105(4):1515-26.
doi: 10.1083/jcb.105.4.1515.

The subnuclear localization of tRNA ligase in yeast

M W Clark  1 , J Abelson
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The subnuclear localization of tRNA ligase in yeast

M W Clark et al. J Cell Biol. 1987 Oct.

Abstract

Yeast tRNA ligase is an enzyme required for tRNA splicing. A study by indirect immune fluorescence shows that this enzyme is localized in the cell nucleus. At higher resolution, studies using indirect immune electron microscopy show this nuclear location to be primarily at the inner membrane of the nuclear envelope, most likely at the nuclear pore. There is a more diffuse, secondary location of ligase in a region of the nucleoplasm within 300 nm of the nuclear envelope. When the amount of ligase in the cell is increased, nuclear staining increases but staining of the nuclear envelope remains constant. This experiment indicates that there are a limited number of ligase sites at the nuclear envelope. Since the other tRNA splicing component, the endonuclease, has the characteristics of an integral membrane protein, we hypothesize that it constitutes the site for the interaction of ligase with the nuclear envelope.

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