DETERMINATION BY SYSTEMATIC DELETION OF THE AMINO-ACIDS ESSENTIAL FOR CATALYSIS BY RICIN-A CHAIN

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MORRIS, KN
WOOL, IG
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[1] Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Dept., University of Chicago, Chicago
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10.1073/pnas.89.11.4869
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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The A chain of ricin is a RNA N-glycosidase that inactivates ribosomes by depurination of a single adenosine in 28S rRNA. Of the 267 amino acids in the protein, 222 (83 %) could be deleted from one or another of 74 mutants without loss of the capacity of the protein to recognize a single nucleotide from among the 7000 in ribosomes or to catalyze hydrolysis.
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