In hippocampal neurons of ground squirrels and neuroblastoma culture the ribosome state was analyzed by staining with acridine orange (AO), labeling with radioactive amino acids, and electron microscopy. Electron microscopy indicated that the extent to which ribosomes associated in polysomes varied
The effect of acridine orange on the structure of ribosomes
β Scribed by Moshe Tal; Haim Rotem; Matya Alfasi; Robert A. Berg
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3525
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
Exposure of Escherichia coli MREβ600 ribosomes to acridine orange (AO) at low ionic strength (1m__M__ Trisβacetate pH 7.4) results in quantitative binding of the dye. Under our experimental conditions about a few hundred dye molecules can be bound to any one of the 30, 50, or 70βS particles. AO causes the 30 and the 50βS subunits to form ribosomal aggregates of approximate sedimentation constants of 70 and 100βS.
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Ai:riditie Orange, at, appropriate iirtermediat,e concentrations, causes a substantial broadening of the thermal transitions of Bacillus subtilis DNA and of dAT. Experiments in which the two polymers are heated together show that the broadening is the result of the transfer of acridine orange molecu
## Synopsis A quantity, called the linking number, is defined, which specifies the total number of t,wists in a circular helix. The linking number is invariant under continuous deformations of the ring and therefore enables one to calculate the influence of superhelical structures on the secondary