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An Arginyl-Transfer Ribonucleic Acid Protein Transferase from Cereal Embryos ¹

^a Boyce Thompson Institute, 1086 North Broadway, Yonkers, New York 10701

Embryos from rice (Oryza sativa L. var. Bluebonnet) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) contain an aminoacyl-tRNA protein transferase which transfers arginine from arginyl-tRNA to the N terminus of a protein acceptor. The activity was measured in vitro in a reaction mixture containing embryo supernatant fraction, buffer, sulfhydryl reagent, and arginyl-tRNA. It was not dependent on the usual cofactors for ribosomal protein synthesis, nor was it sensitive to cycloheximide or puromycin. However, the activity was inhibited by ribonuclease. The enzyme was purified 33-fold from a crude homogenate of rice embryos. An apparent endogenous substrate from rice embryos was prepared free of transferase activity; however, the transferase was not purified sufficiently to show absolute dependence on the presence of this endogenous substrate.