The polyadenylate polymerases from yeast.

Poly(A) polymerase activity was first detected in yeast extracts, primarily in association with the ribosomal fraction, by Twu and Bretthauer in 1971 (Twu, J. S., and Bretthauer, RK. (1971) Biochemistry 10, 1576-1582). This activity has now been separated into three distinct enzymes by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose. Each of the three enzymes can catalyze the incorporation of adenylate residues from ATP into a polyadenylate (poly(A)) tract at the 3' terminus of a primer RNA. Enzyme I elutes at 0.07 M ammonium sulfate from the DEAE-cellulose column, utilizes the mixed polynucleotide poly(A,G,C,U) or ribosomal RNA most efficiently in vitro, and may be responsible in vivo for the initiation of the poly(A) tracts found on yeast messenger RNA. Enzyme II elutes from the column at 0.20 M ammonium sulfate, requires poly(A) itself or an RNA primer containing a 3'-oligo(A) tract, and may be responsible in the nucleus for the elongation of tracts initiated by enzyme I. Enzyme III elutes from the column at 0.56 M ammonium sulfate and is present in low amounts in nuclear extracts. It may be involved in adding poly(A) tracts to messenger RNA in mitochondria. These enzymes also have the intrinsic capacity for the incorporation of cytidylate residues from CTP, which correlates with the finding of cytidylate residues in the poly(A) tracts present in the yeast RNA which is rapidly labeled in vivo. About 75% of the total poly(A) polymerase activity of yeast is enzyme I, most of which is present in the soluble protein fraction of the whole yeast extract. About 20% of the total poly(A) polymerase is enzyme II, and 1 to 5% is enzyme III. All three of the yeast poly(A) polymerases require an RNA primer with a free 3'-hydroxyl group, show no requirement for a DNA template, require Mn-2+ for optimal activity, have pH optima of 8.5, and are inhibited by GTP, CTP, UTP, and native yeast DNA. Polymerases I and II have similar molecular weights by gel filtration.

• Publication year

  1975

• Venue

  Journal of Biological Chemistry

• Publication date

  1975-03-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)41771-7PMID 234467
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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