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Interaction of mitochondrial elongation factors Tu.Ts with aminoacyl-tRNA
L A Benkowski1, C Takemoto, G Ott
1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry 27599-3290, USA.
Nucleic Acids Symposium Series
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
The interaction between the bovine mitochondrial translational elongation factor Tu.Ts complex (EF-Tu.Tsmt) and aminoacyl-tRNA has been investigated using a nuclease protection assay and fluorescence enhancement of [AEDANS-s2C]Tyr-tRNA(Tyr). The equilibrium dissociation constant, Kd, for the EF-Tu.Tsmt:GTP:E. coli Phe-tRNA complex is approximately 50 nM. A similar binding constant (30 nM) is obtained using bovine mitochondrial Phe-tRNA. The equilibrium binding constant for the EF-Tu.Tsmt:GTP:yeast [AEDANS-s2C]Tyr-tRNA(Tyr) complex is approximately 4 nM when determined using the fluorescence enhancement assay.