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  • Title: Hypermodified alkali-stable dinucleotide sequences in each of the high-molecular-weight (26S and 18S) ribosomal RNA species of wheat.
    Author: Gray MW, Cunningham RS.
    Journal: Can J Biochem; 1977 May; 55(5):582-6. PubMed ID: 195686.
    Abstract:
    Two hypermodified, alkali-stable dinucleotide sequences, each containing a base modification in addition to sugar methylation, are known to be present in wheat embryo 26S + 18S rRNA (Gray, M.W. (1974) Biochemistry 13, 5453-5463). Quantitative analysis of unfractionated 26S + 18S rRNA had suggested that each of these sequences (Cm-psi p and psi m-Ap, where Cm=O2'-methylcytidine and psi m-O2'-methylpseudouridine) was present in either the 18S or the 26S rRNA species, but not the both, at a frequency of not more than once per chain. In the study reported here, the individual 32P-labeled 18S and 26S rRNA species were isolated from viable wheat embryos germinated in the presence of [32P]orthophosphate. From analyses of phosphodiesterase and alkaline hydrolysates of the separated [32P]RNAs, we conclude that psi m-Ap is confined to wheat cytosol 18S rRNA, whereas Cm-psi p is localized in wheat cytosol 26S rRNA. The presence of psi m in the 18S rRNA of wheat stands in contrast with the situation in animal cells, where this hypermodified nucleoside is located in the 28S rRNA (Khan, M.S.N. & Maden, B.E.H. (1976) J. Mol. Biol. 101, 235-254).
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