Are there proteins between the ribosomal subunits?
- 3 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 197 (1-2), 229-233
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(86)80332-5
Abstract
The hot tritium bombardment technique [(1976) Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 228, 1237‐1238] was used for studying the surface localization of ribosomal proteins on Escherichia coli ribosomes. The degree of tritium labeling of proteins was considered as a measure of their exposure (surface localization). Proteins S1, S4, S7, S9 and/or S11, S12 and/or L20, S13, S18, S20, S21, L5, L6, L7/L12, L10, L11, L16, L17, L24, L26 and L27 were shown to be the most exposed on the ribosome surface. The sets of exposed ribosomal proteins on the surface of 70 S ribosomes, on the one hand, and the surfaces of 50 S and 30 S ribosomal subunits in the dissociated state, on the other, were compared. It was found that the dissociation of ribosomes into subunits did not result in exposure of additional ribosomal proteins. The conclusion was drawn that proteins are absent from the contacting surfaces of the ribosomal subunits.Keywords
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