title: Low molecular weight peptide from calf's liver mitochondrial DNA: structure and effect on DNA as a template.
abstract: A peptide fraction from the mitochondrial DNA of calf's liver was isolated using Drouin's method (1). This peptide fraction, which was extracted at pH 9.5 from an extensively purified mitochondrial DNA (2), has been shown to exert an in vitro regulatory role on the transcription and duplication activity of DNA (3). The same fraction also binds with mitochondrial DNA with a high affinity constant and stabilizes DNA from calf's thymus against thermal denaturation. The peptides from mitochondrial DNA have been subfractionated by fingerprinting-like techniques and one of them has been sequenced.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spena
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chimenti
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Covello
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: De Cicco
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mazzulla
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martino
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D004261:DNA Replication / Q000187:drug effects*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000378:metabolism; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases / Q000378:metabolism; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013698:Templates, Genetic; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D010455:Peptides; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase