title: New model of tertiary structure of plant 5S rRNA is confirmed by digestions with alpha-sarcin.
abstract: The cytotoxin alpha-sarcin was employed to test the model of secondary and tertiary structures of plant 5S rRNAs, which we recently proposed [(1990) Int. J. Biol. Macromol. (in press)]. alpha-Sarcin is a novel ribonuclease that hydrolyzes phosphodiester bonds adjacent to purines in nucleic acids. The digestion pattern obtained for lupin and wheat germ 5S rRNAs strongly suggests the existence of tertiary interactions between residues C34, C35, C36, A37 and G85, G86, G87, U88 as previously proposed. The results on the secondary structure of plant 5S rRNA are in line with a previously proposed model.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan.
authors.forename: M Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Barciszewska
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Joachimiak
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ulbrich
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Erdmann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barciszewski
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004722:Endoribonucleases; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D010944:Plants; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012341:RNA, Ribosomal, 5S / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014908:Triticum
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012341:RNA, Ribosomal, 5S; C014801:alpha-sarcin; D004722:Endoribonucleases