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Lundvik, Lars 2015-09-09T06:14:40Z 2015-09-09T06:14:40Z 2015-09-09 978-91-628-9518-1 (online) 978-91-628-9517-4 (print) http://hdl.handle.net/2077/39312 ABSTRACT. Quaternary structures of amino acid tRNA ligases/synthetases (aaRS) in the native as well as in denatured forms were examined by molecular weight determinations (paper I-IV). Analytical ultracentrifugation, gel electrophoresis, gel chromatography were used in these investigations. The aaRSs were obtained from bacteria and yeast: LysRS and ValRS from S. cerevisiae, AspRS, LysRS and SerRS from E. coli, AsnRS, LysRS, SerRS and ValRS from Bacillus stearothermophilus. The quaternary structures of ValRSs from S. cerevisiae and B. stearothermophilus are both monomeric (the α-type), whereas all the other aaRSs are homodimers (the α2-type). Two of the aaRS-enzymes have also been crystallized. Both of them are LysRS and their structures were examined with X-ray crystallography. LysRS from S. cerevisiae with a resolution of 5 to 6 A in all directions, and from B. stearothermophilus LysRS with a resolution of 8 A. In Paper V the enzyme HMG-CoA lyase was investigated. The activity of this enzyme is found in Rhodospirillum rubrum cells grown anaerobically in the light with leucine as the carbon source. A 1.2 kb long DNA segment from R. rubrum has been sequenced and includes the first identified gene for a putative 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase, termed hmgL, from a photosynthetic organism. A parallel project concerned the characterization of a DNA homeobox (HD), where it was shown that the T7 promoter sequence lacked an important guanine for the transcription of this gene. The analytical ultracentrifugation method as described in this thesis played an important role already when the first protein structures were characterized, and the interest has increased dramatically during the last ten years partly due to automation. I hope that my early work on the application of analytical ultracentrifugation to tRNA ligases/synthetases (aaRSs) also helped to inspire these exciting developments. eng I. Rymo, L., Lundvik, L., and Lagerkvist, U. Subunit Structure and Binding Properties of Three Amino Acid Transfer Ribonucleic Acid Ligases. J. Biol. Chem. 247, 3888-3899 (1972). II. Lundvik L., Lustig, F. and Rymo, L. Properties of the Sulfhydryl Groups of Three Amino Acid: Transfer RNA Ligases. Acta Chem. Scand. B 31 95-101 (1977). III. Åkesson, B. and Lundvik, L. Simultaneous Purification and Some Properties of Aspartate: tRNA Ligase and Seven Other Amino-acid: tRNA Ligases from Escherichia coli. Eur. J. Biochem. 83, 29-36 (1978). IV. Samuelsson, T. and Lundvik, L. Purification and Some Properties of Asparagine, Lysine, Serine, and Valine: tRNA Ligases from Bacillus stearothermophilus. J. Biol. Chem. 253, 7033-7039 (1978). V. Baltscheffsky, M., Brosche, M., Hultman, Th., Lundvik, L., Nyren, P., Sakai-More, Y., Severin, A., and Strid, Å. A 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-CoA Lyase Gene In the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1337, 113-122 (1997). amino acid tRNA ligase analytical ultracentrifugation Characterization of Amino Acid tRNA Ligases using the Analytical Ultracentrifuge Text Doctoral thesis Doctor of Philosophy lundvik@yahoo.com DOI nummer saknas för de fem publikationer som redovisas som delarbeten från LIST OF PAPERS i avhandlingen. Dessa nummer existerar inte. University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Science Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology ; Institutionen för kemi och molekylärbiologi Tisdagen den 29 september 2015, kl. 13.00, Hörsal Ragnar Sandberg, Academicum, Medicinaregatan 7A. 2015-09-29 MNF open.access