PMID- 2725500 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19890623 LR - 20240109 IS - 0270-7306 (Print) IS - 1098-5549 (Electronic) IS - 0270-7306 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 3 DP - 1989 Mar TI - Cytoplasmic heat shock granules are formed from precursor particles and are associated with a specific set of mRNAs. PG - 1298-308 AB - In heat-shocked tomato cell cultures, cytoplasmic heat shock granules (HSGs) are tightly associated with a specific subset of mRNAs coding mainly for the untranslated control proteins. This messenger ribonucleoprotein complex was banded in a CsCl gradient after fixation with formaldehyde (approximately 1.30 g/cm3). It contains all the heat shock proteins and most of the RNA applied to the gradient. During heat shock, a reversible aggregation of HSGs from 15S precursor particles can be shown. These pre-HSGs are not identical to the 19S plant prosomes. Ultrastructural analysis supports the ribonucleoprotein nature of HSGs and their composition of approximately 10-nm precursor particles. A model summarizes our results. It gives a reasonable explanation for the striking conservation of untranslated mRNAs during heat shock and may apply also to animal cells. FAU - Nover, L AU - Nover L AD - Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Halle. FAU - Scharf, K D AU - Scharf KD FAU - Neumann, D AU - Neumann D LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Mol Cell Biol JT - Molecular and cellular biology JID - 8109087 RN - 0 (Heat-Shock Proteins) RN - 0 (Plant Proteins) RN - 0 (Protein Precursors) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) SB - IM MH - Cytoplasmic Granules/metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Heat-Shock Proteins/*biosynthesis/genetics MH - Microscopy, Electron MH - Models, Biological MH - Plant Proteins/biosynthesis/genetics MH - Plants/genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure MH - Protein Biosynthesis MH - Protein Precursors/genetics/metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/genetics/*metabolism PMC - PMC362722 EDAT- 1989/03/01 00:00 MHDA- 1989/03/01 00:01 PMCR- 1989/03/01 CRDT- 1989/03/01 00:00 PHST- 1989/03/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1989/03/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1989/03/01 00:00 [entrez] PHST- 1989/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1128/mcb.9.3.1298-1308.1989 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Cell Biol. 1989 Mar;9(3):1298-308. doi: 10.1128/mcb.9.3.1298-1308.1989.