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Non-Specific Depurination Activity of Saporin-S6, a Ribosome-Inactivating Protein, under Acidic Conditions

  • S. Tang , R.-g. Hu , W.-y. Liu and K.-c. Ruan
Published/Copyright: July 5, 2005
Biological Chemistry
From the journal Volume 381 Issue 8

Abstract

Among five ribosome-inactivating proteins tested only saporin-S6 could efficiently release the adenine from adenosine 20 of the synthetic oligoribonucleotide (SRD RNA) mimic of the sarcin/ricin domain of rat 28S rRNA with a Km of 9μM and a kcat of approximately 0.4 min−1 at pH 7.6. The optimal pH for the depurination activity of saporin-S6 is 5.0. However, saporin-S6 lost its site-specificity of depurination on SRD RNA around the optimal pH. The non-specific depurination activity of saporin-S6 was dependent on the enzyme concentration and pH conditions. These results are valuable to understand the diversity and the depurination mechanism of ribosome-inactivating proteins.

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Published Online: 2005-07-05
Published in Print: 2000-08-06

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