An enhanced thermostability in thermophilic 5-S ribonucleic acids under physiological salt conditions
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- DOI: 10.1016/0005-2787(78)90271-x
An enhanced thermostability in thermophilic 5-S ribonucleic acids under physiological salt conditions
Abstract
The secondary structure of 5-S rRNAs of Thermus aquaticus (an extreme thermophile), Bacillus stearothermophilus (a moderate thermophile) and Escherichia coli (a mesophile) was compared using thermal denaturation techniques under varying ionic conditions. At a low ionic strength (10 mM K+), the Tm of T. aquaticus 5-S RNA differed by only 1 degrees C from that of E. coli RNA and the molecule was fully denatured well below the optimum growth temperature of the thermophile. The internal Na+, K+ and Mg2+ concentrations of T. aquaticus cells were determined to be 91 mM, 130 mM and 59 mM, respectively. Under these salt conditions, T. aquaticus 5-S RNA was significantly more stable than E. coli RNA and the 5-S RNA from B. stearothermophilus was intermediate as is its optimum growth temperature. The results suggest that the thermostability of macromolecules from thermophilic organisms may be specially dependent on the internal salt concentration. Furthermore, under these salt conditions, most of the secondary structure of the RNA remained stable at the optimum growth temperatures suggesting that ribosomal RNAs of thermophilic organisms contribute more to the thermostability of the ribosome than previously thought.
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