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Isolation and Properties of a Testicular Ribonucleic Acid Polymerase

From the ¹ From the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research and Department of Biochemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

A procedure is described for isolation in a soluble form of a ribonucleic acid polymerase from rat testes. Evidence is presented that this enzyme catalyzes three distinct reactions: (a) deoxyribonucleic acid-directed synthesis of RNA in the presence of all four major ribonucleoside triphosphates; (b) DNA-primed formation of polyadenylic acid and other ribohomopolymers in the presence of single ribonucleoside triphosphate substrates; (c) synthesis of complementary polyribonucleotides in the presence of various ribohomopolymer primers. The properties of these reactions are discussed with respect to metal ion requirements, affinities for ribonucleoside triphosphates and primer polynucleotides, heat denaturation of DNA primers, and the effects of ionic strength, ß-mercaptoethanol, polyamines, temperature, and inhibitors on the rates and extent of the reactions. The testicular ribonucleic acid polymerase is a very unstable enzyme that can be stabilized by high concentrations of glycerol.

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