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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1999

Assembly of a catalytic unit for RNA microhelix aminoacylation using nonspecific RNA binding domains.

J W Chihade, P Schimmel

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J W ChihadeSkaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
P Schimmel
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

GENETIC APPROACHES TO PROTEIN/NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTIONSR01GM023562 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SCHIMMEL, PAUL R · 1985 to 2012
$4.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM23562NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM023562
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An assembly of a catalytic unit for aminoacylation of an RNA microhelix is demonstrated here. This assembly may recapitulate a step in the historical development of tRNA synthetases. The class-defining domain of a tRNA synthetase is closely related to the primordial enzyme that catalyzed synthesis of aminoacyl adenylate. RNA binding elements are imagined to have been added so that early RNA substrates could be docked proximal to the activated amino acid. RNA microhelices that recapitulate the acceptor stem of modern tRNAs are potential examples of early substrates. In this work, we examined a fragment of Escherichia coli alanyl-tRNA synthetase, which catalyzes aminoacyl adenylate formation but is virtually inactive for catalysis of RNA microhelix aminoacylation. Fusion to the fragment of either of two unrelated nonspecific RNA binding domains activated microhelix aminoacylation. Although the fusion proteins lacked the RNA sequence specificity of the natural enzyme, their activity was within 1-2 kcal.mol(-1) of a truncated alanyl-tRNA synthetase that has aminoacylation activity sufficient to sustain cell growth. These results show that, starting with an activity for adenylate synthesis, barriers are relatively low for building catalytic units for aminoacylation of RNA helices.

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AcylationAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBase SequenceCatalytic DomainDNA PrimersKineticsNucleic Acid ConformationRNAAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesDNA PrimersRNA

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PMID10535919
PMCPMC22914
OpenAlexW2067914969

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