IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS AT THE SUBUNIT INTERFACE OF THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI RIBOSOME BY CROSS-LINKING WITH DIMETHYL 3,3'-DITHIOBIS(PROPIONIMIDATE)
IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS AT THE SUBUNIT INTERFACE OF THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI RIBOSOME BY CROSS-LINKING WITH DIMETHYL 3,3'-DITHIOBIS(PROPIONIMIDATE)
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00513a021
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
TRAUT, RR
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作者:
COVER, JA;LAMBERT, JM;TRAUT, RR
The 70S ribosomes of E. coli were treated with dimethyl 3,3''-dithiobis(propionimidate). Under conditions where 40% of the lysine .epsilon.-amino groups became modified, about 50% of the ribosomes became resistant to dissociation into 30S and 50S subunits when analyzed in the absence of reducing agents on sucrose gradients containing low Mg concentrations. Dissociation took place in the presence of reducing agents, indicating that the bifunctional reagent had reacted with proteins from both subunits. Proteins were extracted from purified cross-linked 70S ribosomes by using conditions to preclude disulfide interchange. Disulfide-linked protein complexes and non-cross-linked proteins were fractionated by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide/urea gels at pH 5.5. The proteins from sequential slices of the urea gel were analyzed by 2-dimensional diagonal polyacrylamide/sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. Monomeric proteins derived from cross-linked dimers appeared below the diagonal of non-cross-linked proteins since the 2nd electrophoresis but not the first is run under reducing conditions to cleave the cross-linked species. Final identification of the constituent proteins in each dimer was made by radioiodination of the cross-linked proteins, followed by 2-dimensional polyacrylamide/urea gel electrophoresis in the presence of nonradioactive marker 70S protein. The identification of 11 cross-linked protein dimers which contained 1 protein from each of the 2 ribosomal subunits is described. The proteins in these cross-linked pairs are apparently located in the regions of contact between the 2 subunits, i.e., at the subunit interface.