Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10769047 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7 is one of Crenarchaea whose entire genome has been sequenced. The genome sequence revealed that it possesses two open reading frames (ORFs) that are homologous to EndA, a protein responsible for splicing endonuclease activity in Archaea. Interestingly, one of the two ORFs lacks a putative catalytic amino acid residue for the nuclease activity. To investigate their functions, the two ORF products were individually expressed in Escherichia coli, partially purified, and tested for their nuclease activities in vitro. Using in vitro transcribed tRNA precursor as a substrate, we found that the two ORF products are concurrently required to cleave exon-intron junctions. Our finding implies that the splicing endonuclease for the organism is a multi-subunit complex composed of the two endA gene products.
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Authors
Shigeo Yoshinari, Shinji Fujita, Ryoji Masui, Seiki Kuramitsu, Shin-ichi Yokobori, Kiyoshi Kita, Yoh-ichi Watanabe,