Abstract
The length at which the N terminus of nascent proteins becomes available to antibodies during their synthesis on ribosomes was determined. Three different proteins, bovine rhodanese, bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase and MS2 coat protein, were synthesized with coumarin at their N terminus in a cell-free system derived from Escherichia coli. A derivative of coumarin was cotranslationally incorporated as N-coumarin-methionine at the N terminus of polypeptides. The interaction of specific anti-coumarin antibodies with this N-terminal coumarin of ribosome-bound nascent peptides was examined. The results indicate that short nascent peptides of each of the three proteins are unreactive, that the length at which they become accessible to the antibodies is different for the three proteins, and that longer peptides differ in their reactivity. It is suggested that these differences are due to differences in the conformation acquired by the peptides as they are synthesized on the ribosomes.
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