title: RNA-hydrolyzing antibodies from peripheral blood of patients with lupus erythematosus.
abstract: Experiments and hydrolysis of substrates with known spatial structures (such as yeast tRNAPhe, as well as normal and mutant tRNALys from human mitochondria produced by transcription of the appropriate DNA species, that is, RNA genes) were performed to study the ribonuclease activity of antibodies isolated from blood sera of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The antibody preparations contained two types of ribonuclease activities: the first corresponded to the specificity of ribonuclease A and was found during hydrolysis at low salt concentrations, whereas the second was stimulated by Mg2+ and displayed unique specificity toward double-stranded regions of the substrate. The possible use of the antibody preparations as tools for structural studies of conformational differences between RNA molecules was examined. In experiments with unmodified and mutant tRNALys species differing in one base found in the T-loop, we found that hydrolysis with SLE antibodies can detect small local structural changes in RNA under physiological conditions.
authors.affiliation: Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. nev@modul.bioch.nsk.su
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Vlassov
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Andrievskaya
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Kanyshkova
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Baranovsky
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Naumov
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Breusov
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giege
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Buneva
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Nevinsky
mesh_terms: D017151:Antibodies, Catalytic / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology*; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012357:RNA, Transfer, Lys / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017151:Antibodies, Catalytic; D012357:RNA, Transfer, Lys