Extracellular trnas of the marine photosynthetic bacterium rhodovulum sulfidophilum are not aminoacylated

Hiromichi Suzuki, So Umekage, Terumichi Tanaka, Yo Kikuchi*

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Abstract

The marine photosynthetic bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum produces nucleic acids extracellularly. We have identified these extracellular RNAs as fully mature sized tRNAs and fragments of 16S and 23S rRNAs. Most of the tRNAs have mature 30-terminal CCA sequences. In the present study we found that these extracellular tRNAs were not aminoacylated, although almost all intracellular tRNAs are aminoacylated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)425-427
Number of pages3
JournalBioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry
Volume73
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Aminoacylation
  • Extracellular tRNA
  • Photosynthetic bacterium
  • Rhodovulum sulfidophilum

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Medicine(all)

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