ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHORIBOSYLATION OF AMINOACYL TRANSFERASE-II BY DIPHTHERIA TOXIN
ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHORIBOSYLATION OF AMINOACYL TRANSFERASE-II BY DIPHTHERIA TOXIN
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DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1969.034.01.069
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1969-01-01
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HAYAISHI, O
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HONJO, T;NISHIZUKA, Y;HAYAISHI, O
Strauss and Hendee (1959), Kato and Pappenhelmet (1960) and Kato (1962) have shown that diphtheria toxin inhibits mammalian protein synthesis in ceU-free systems as well as in cultured cells. Collier and Pappenheimer (1964) have shown subsequently that NAD is absolutely required for this inhibition of protein synthesis in cell-free systems obtained from HeLa cells and from rabbit reticulocytes. More recently Collier (1967i, and Goor and Pappenheimer (1967) have demonstrated that toxin specifically inactivates aminoacyl transferase II, one of the soluble factors which assemble amino acids into a polypeptide chain as directed by messenger RNA. It has been further shown that the inactivation of transferase II can be prevented or reversed by the presence of a sufficient concentration of nicotinamide (Goor et al., 1967). In this article, evidence will be briefly presented indicating that diphtheria toxin transfers the ADP-ribose portion of NAD to transferase II, resulting in a concurrent inactivation of this particular'enzyme. A stoichiometric amount of nicotinamide is released simultaneously and the reaction is reversible. The ribosome-dependent GTPase activity associated with transferase II will also be shown to be inactivated by this ADP-ribosylation reaction. These results, therefore, may clarify the mode of action of diphtheria toxin which has been introduced by the preceding papers in this volume (Collier and Traugh, and Gill, Pappenheimer, and Baseman). In the present studies the activity of polypeptide synthesis was assayed by measuring the poly U-directed incorporation of radioactivity from 14C-phenylalanyl-tRNA into material insoluble in hot trichloracetic acid as described previously (Honjo et al., 1968). The complementary factors, aminoacyl transferases I and II, were purified from rat liver by a slight modification of the method of Skogerson and Moldave (1967), and further purified by calcium phosphate gel and hydroxylapatite column chromatography. These purified factors were completely free of each other. Rat liver ribosomes were prepared by the method of