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  • Title: Fractionation of constituents of ribonucleoproteins containing heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleic acid.
    Author: Fuchs JP, Jacob M.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1979 Sep 18; 18(19):4202-8. PubMed ID: 486418.
    Abstract:
    A method of fractionation of hnRNP constituents adaptable to large-scale preparation is presented. It is based on differential resistance to salt dissociation of the two classes of units of hnRNP, the 30--50S monoparticles and the heterogeneous complexes. The monoparticle proteins were released from hnRNP by 0.4 M NaCl. They were separated from the salt-resistant RNP corresponding to the heterogeneous complexes in three steps: chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, high-speed centrifugation, and Bio-Gel chromatography. The latter chromatography permitted a first fractionation of monoparticle proteins according to molecular weight. Such fractions may serve for purification of individual proteins of molecular weight below 80 000. After the two first steps, two fractions of salt-resistant RNP were obtained. In addition to heterogeneous RNA up to 30 S, small nuclear RNAs were detected which represented 6% of total RNA. The protein pattern was complex, and no clear-cut segregation of groups of proteins could be observed between the two fractions. They were both highly enriched in phosphoproteins as compared to nomoparticle proteins. In another fraction corresponding to the void volume of Bio-Gel chromatography, one-third of the RNA was small nuclear RNA. It is suggested that this fraction contains snRNP in addition to free proteins of molecular weight above 80 000 and to salt-resistant RNP similar to those described above but of small size.
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