Modified nucleosides of Bacillus subtilis transfer ribonucleic acids - PubMed (original) (raw)

Modified nucleosides of Bacillus subtilis transfer ribonucleic acids

B Vold. J Bacteriol. 1976 Jul.

Abstract

An analysis of the kinds and amounts of minor nucleosides of transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNA's) from Bacillus subtilis 168 trpC2 is presented. Identification and quantitation were accomplished using ion exclusion chromatography, thin-layer and paper chromatography, and ultraviolet absorption properties. Nucleosides and their amount in moles per 80 residues are as follows: guanosine (25.7), cytidine (22.0), adenosine (15.2), uridine (13.1), 5-methyluridine (0.98), pseudouridine (1.54), 1-methyladenosine (0.15), N6-methyladenosine (0.01), 7-methyladenosine (0.10), 2-methyladenosine (0.03), 7-methylguanosine (0.20), N2-methylguanosine (0.14), 1-methylguanosine (0.14), a methylated pyrimidine (0.17), a methylated derivative of N6-(delta 2-isopentenyl)adenosine (0.02), ribose methylated nucleosides (0.02), 4-thiouridine (0.12), 2-thio-5-(N-methylaminomethyl) (0.09), and an unknown thionucleoside (0.12). Although the composition is similar to that of Escherichia coli in the proportion of major nucleosides, the content of pseudouridine and 5-methyluridine, and the degree of base and ribose methylation, the composition is more similar to that of the tRNA's of yeast and higher organisms in its lower degree of thiolation, the presence of significant amounts of 1-methyladenosine, and the low levels of 2-methyladenosine and 6-methyladenosine. Therefore, the nucleoside composition of B. subtilis presents some different aspects from those usually given as characteristic for bacterial tRNA's. It is not known whether these differences are due to variation between bacterial species in general or related to the process of differentiation.

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