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Isolation and characterization of a new temperature-sensitive polynucleotide phosphorylase mutation in Escherichia coli K-12.
Biochimie - 1 Nov 1990
Yancey S D, Kushner S R
Abstract excerpt
Polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase) has been studied in detail since its discovery in 1955 [1]. In an attempt to determine what role, if any, it has in mRNA decay in Escherichia coli, we have isolated and characterized a temperature-sensitive mutation, pnp-200, in the pnp gene. In vitro phosphorolysis, polymerization and exchange activities of the partially purified Pnp-200 enzyme are all reduced to 30-40% of...
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