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THE ribonuclease, barnase, produced by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens has a molecular weight of 12,382, consisting of 110 amino-acid residues. It is one of the smallest proteins containing neither disulphide bonds nor non-peptide cross-Bnks which nevertheless maintain a well defined tertiary structure1,2. The next smallest reported enzyme of similar nature is the lysozyme of phage T4, with 160 residues. The barnase structure is reversibly destroyed by denaturing solvents or heat2, in what approximates a one step, highly cooperative, transition. Studies of this reaction should be very useful in approaching the general problem of sequence-determined folding in proteins. In particular, thermodynamically meaningful quantitative differences in the stability of various genetic variants and chemically modified, or synthetic, barnases could be measured. Some work has been reported on the effect of various environmental parameters on the transition3 as well as the effects of modification by carboxypeptidases4. Full utilization of such data requires knowledge of both amino-acid sequence and three dimensional structurs. The complete amino-acid sequence is reported here (Fig. 1). The sequence was obtained by conventional procedures involving analysis of peptides isolated after hydrolysis of the native or modified protein by various proteases.
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HARTLEY, R., BARKER, E. Amino-acid Sequence of Extracellular Ribonuclease (Barnase) of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. Nature New Biology 235, 15–16 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio235015a0
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