title: Study of mammalian selenocysteyl-tRNA synthesis with [75Se]HSe.
abstract: The mechanisms of the synthesis of mammalian selenocysteyl-(Scy)-tRNA were studied using [75SE]H2Se. H2Se was prepared from [75Se]selenite, glutathione, NADPH and glutathione reductase, and was purified by chromatography. It was confirmed that this H2Se was a Se donor in the reaction of the synthesis of Scy-tRNA. [75Se]Scy, liberated from aminoacyl-tRNA, was analyzed by TLC on silica gel an subsequent autoradiography. The activity of Scy-tRNA synthesis was found in the supernatant at 105,000 x g of the murine liver extract, but not in the precipitate. The supernatant was chromatographed on DEAE-cellulose, and the activity was eluted at a concentration of 0.17 M KCl. This position is at the front shoulder of the peak of seryl-tRNA synthetase which was eluted at 0.20 M KCl. Major serine tRNA(IGA) is not a substrate on which to synthesize Scy-tRNA, but natural opal suppressor serine tRNA is. On a chromatographic pattern of a Scy-tRNA preparation on Sephacryl S-200, the radioactivity of 75Se was eluted at the tRNA peak. This showed that Scy bound to tRNA. The active protein fraction from DEAE-cellulose did not contain tRNA kinase, therefore Scy-tRNA must be directly synthesized from seryl-tRNA, not through phosphoseryl-tRNA. This mechanism is similar to that seen in Escherichia coli [1991, J. Biol. Chem. 266, 6324].
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizutani
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kurata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D002417:Cattle; D002848:Chromatography, DEAE-Cellulose; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005980:Glutathione Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D012346:RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D012643:Selenium / Q000378:metabolism; D012644:Selenium Radioisotopes
chemical_list: D012346:RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl; D012644:Selenium Radioisotopes; C112705:selenocysteinyl-tRNA; D009249:NADP; D005980:Glutathione Reductase; D005978:Glutathione; D012643:Selenium