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Cytoplasmic leucyl-tRNA synthetase of Neurospora crassa is not specified by the leu-5 locus - PubMed

Cytoplasmic leucyl-tRNA synthetase of Neurospora crassa is not specified by the leu-5 locus

R Benarous et al. Genetics. 1988 Aug.

Abstract

We generated a lambda gt11 Neurospora crassa cDNA library and screened the library for the cytoplasmic leucyl-tRNA synthetase (cyto LeuRS) clones using cyto LeuRS specific antibody. Two clones, lambda NCLRSC1 and lambda NCLRSC2, were obtained which have inserts of approximately 2 kbp and approximately 1.3 kbp, and which overlap by about 0.6 kbp. The following lines of evidence indicate that lambda NCLRSC1 and lambda NCLRSC2 encode parts of cyto LeuRS. (1) Antibodies affinity purified using either of the fusion proteins encoded by lambda NCLRSC1 or lambda NCLRSC2 inhibit cyto LeuRS activity. Thus, the fusion protein and cyto LeuRS share immunological determinants. (2) The same antibodies also react with an approximately 115-kDa protein, which comigrates with purified cyto LeuRS, in immunoblots of total N. crassa proteins. We used the cDNA clones to probe a N. crassa genomic DNA library and isolated two genomic DNA clones. Partial sequence analysis of cDNA and genomic DNA clones shows a methionine initiated open reading frame, which includes a stretch of amino acid residues that are highly conserved and that are at the ATP binding site in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Using the cloned DNA as probe, we show that the cyto LeuRS mRNA is approximately 3900 nucleotides long. Finally, we have used restriction fragment length polymorphism mapping to show that the cyto LeuRS gene resides on the far right of linkage group II and not on linkage group V where the leu-5 mutation, which was previously reported to specify cyto LeuRS, is located.

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Cytoplasmic leucyl-tRNA synthetase of Neurospora crassa is not specified by the leu-5 locus - PubMed