Hybridization properties of non-polyadenylated oligo(U)-containing RNA from germinating wheat embryos

M. Dobrzanska*, B. Kroczynska, M. Tomaszewski

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Abstract

1. 1. Total cytoplasmic RNA of germinating wheat embryos was fractionated by affinity chromatography and separated into non-polyadenylated oligo(U)-containing RNA (A(-)U(+)RNA) and polyadenylated oligo(U)-lacking RNA (A(+)U(-)RNA). 2. 2. The reassociation kinetics of 32P-labelled complementary DNA (cDNA) reverse-transcribed from A(-)U(+)RNA shows that this RNA fraction is transcribed from unique DNA sequences of the genome similarly as typical mRNA. 3. 3. Cross hybridization experiments show no significant sequence homology between the two RNA fractions. Therefore it is concluded that non-polyadenylated oligo(U)-containing RNA of wheat embryo may represent a discrete class of mRNA.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1205-1210
Number of pages6
JournalInternational Journal of Biochemistry
Volume19
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987

Funding

Acknowledgements--We wish to acknowledge the contribution of Professor Jerzy Buchowicz for helpful discussion and criticism of the manuscript. This work was supported by Polish Academy of Sciences within the projects 09.7 and 3.13.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry

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