Biochemical and Immunological Identification and Enrichment of Poly(A) Polymerase from Human Thymus

Overview

Journal Mol Cell Biochem

Publisher Springer

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1996 Jan 12

PMID 8717411

Authors

C Kyriakopoulou

C M Tsiapalis

M Havredaki

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Abstract

Human thymus poly(A) polymerase (EC 2.7.7.19) activity has been investigated using poly(A) and oligo(A) as initiators. All obtained fractions reveal more than one polypeptide as detected by immunoblotting after SDS-PAGE. In addition to the homogeneously purified (Tsiapalis et al., J Biol Chem 250: 4486-4496, 1975 and Wahle, J Biol Chem 266: 3131-3139, 1991), about 60 kDa polypeptide, a larger polypeptide, about 80 kDa, that comigrates in the region of poly(A) polymerase activity was detected, enriched and partially characterized; it appears having similar size with bovine poly(A) polymerase cloned in E. coli. Polyclonal antiserum produced against recombinant bovine poly(A) polymerase reacts more efficiently with the about 80 kDa polypeptide upon immunoblotting, and can precipitate the poly(A) polymerase activity. This enzyme form, from human tissue, is novel in terms of size and may reflect intact or physiological form of poly(A) polymerase in human thymus, and supports and substantiates recent reports on the enzyme from other sources.

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