title: Specificities of RNA N-glycosidase activity of Mirabilis antiviral protein variants.
abstract: Mirabilis antiviral protein (MAP), a ribosome-inactivating protein, inactivates both eukaryotic and prokaryotic ribosomes by means of site-specific RNA N-glycosidase activity. In order to identify the site of this activity, some amino acid residues of MAP, conserved in homologous ribosome-inactivating proteins, were altered to other amino acids by replacing DNA fragments of the total synthetic gene of MAP. When the in vitro proteins synthesis of rabbit reticulocyte was treated with MAP variants secreted into culture media of Escherichia coli transformants, the inhibitory effect of R26L and R48L (R26L designates MAP variant with Arg-26 changed to Leu) was found to be similar to that of native MAP. Both purified Y72F and Y118F had the same effect as native MAP, and E168D had a slightly weaker effect. In contrast, on the protein synthesis of E. coli, Y118F had one-tenth the effect of native MAP, and Y72F and E168D approximately one-hundredth the effect. These three variant proteins also exhibited reduced RNA N-glycosidase activity on substrate E. coli ribosomes. These results suggest that Tyr-72 and Glu-168 are involved in RNA N-glycosidase activity. When the R171K gene was expressed in E. coli, an N-glycosidic bond of the 23 S rRNA of the host ribosome was found to be cleaved, although no product of the gene could be detected. This suggests that MAP variants can maintain their N-glycosidase activity when the conserved Glu-168 and Arg-171 are changed to similarly charged residues.
authors.affiliation: Life Science Research Laboratory, Japan Tobacco, Inc., Kanagawa.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Habuka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyano
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kataoka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsuge
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noma
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000378:metabolism*; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000187:drug effects; D015870:Gene Expression; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011500:Protein Synthesis Inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D012338:RNA, Ribosomal, 23S / Q000378:metabolism; D054788:Ribosome Inactivating Proteins; D054789:Ribosome Inactivating Proteins, Type 1; D012270:Ribosomes / Q000187:drug effects; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011500:Protein Synthesis Inhibitors; D012338:RNA, Ribosomal, 23S; D054789:Ribosome Inactivating Proteins, Type 1; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; C059351:MAP protein, Mirabilis jalapa; D054788:Ribosome Inactivating Proteins