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The Rana catesbeiana (bullfrog) ribonucleases, which belong to the RNase A superfamily, exert cytotoxicity toward tumor cells. RC-RNase, the most active among frog ribonucleases, has a unique base preference for pyrimidine-guanine rather than pyrimidine-adenine in RNase A. Residues of RC-RNase involved in base specificity and catalytic activity were determined by site-directed mutagenesis, k(cat)/K(m) analysis toward dinucleotides, and cleavage site analysis of RNA substrate. The results show that Pyr-1 (N-terminal pyroglutamate), Lys-9, and Asn-38 along with His-10, Lys-35, and His-103 are involved in catalytic activity, whereas Pyr-1, Thr-39, Thr-70, Lys-95, and Glu-97 are involved in base specificity. The cytotoxicity of RC-RNase is correlated, but not proportional to, its catalytic activity. The crystal structure of the RC-RNase.d(ACGA) complex was determined at 1.80 A resolution. Residues Lys-9, His-10, Lys-35, and His-103 interacted directly with catalytic phosphate at the P(1) site, and Lys-9 was stabilized by hydrogen bonds contributed by Pyr-1, Tyr-28, and Asn-38. Thr-70 acts as a hydrogen bond donor for cytosine through Thr-39 and determines B(1) base specificity. Interestingly, Pyr-1 along with Lys-95 and Glu-97 form four hydrogen bonds with guanine at B(2) site and determine B(2) base specificity.

1M07 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_catesbeiana Rana catesbeiana]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_ribonuclease Pancreatic ribonuclease], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=3.1.27.5 3.1.27.5] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1M07 OCA].  

[[Category: Chern, S S.]]

[[Category: Hsiao, Y Y.]]

[[Category: Leu, Y J.]]

[[Category: Liao, Y D.]]

[[Category: Liaw, Y C.]]

[[Category: Wang, S C.]]

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