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Ashish Kumar Singh1, Sisinthy Shivaji
1Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India.
Abstract:
A cold-active heat-labile t-RNA modification GTPase (TrmE) from psychrophilic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae (Lz4W) has been purified and characterized. The purified TrmE is a 53 kDa protein, has GTPase activity and hydrolyses only the oxy and deoxy forms of GTP but not the other nucleotide triphosphates. The enzyme exhibits optimal activity at 12-18 degrees C and retains 65% of its optimal activity at 4 degrees C, indicating that it is a cold-active enzyme. The enzyme is also heat-labile and loses 60% of its activity at 30 degrees C. This is the first report on the purification and characterization of a TrmE from a psychrophilic bacterium.
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