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ArticleNucleic acids research2007

Human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase is switched to a tRNA-dependent mode for tryptophan activation by mutations at V85 and I311.

Li-Tao Guo, Xiang-Long Chen, Bo-Tao Zhao, Yi Shi, Wei Li, Hong Xue, You-Xin Jin

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Li-Tao GuoState Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China.
Xiang-Long Chen
Bo-Tao Zhao
Yi Shi
Wei Li
Hong Xue
You-Xin Jin
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · HKChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For most aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS), their cognate tRNA is not obligatory to catalyze amino acid activation, with the exception of four class I (aaRS): arginyl-tRNA synthetase, glutamyl-tRNA synthetase, glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase and class I lysyl-tRNA synthetase. Furthermore, for arginyl-, glutamyl- and glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase, the integrated 3' end of the tRNA is necessary to activate the ATP-PPi exchange reaction. Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase is a class I aaRS that catalyzes tryptophan activation in the absence of its cognate tRNA. Here we describe mutations located at the appended beta1-beta2 hairpin and the AIDQ sequence of human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase that switch this enzyme to a tRNA-dependent mode in the tryptophan activation step. For some mutant enzymes, ATP-PPi exchange activity was completely lacking in the absence of tRNA(Trp), which could be partially rescued by adding tRNA(Trp), even if it had been oxidized by sodium periodate. Therefore, these mutant enzymes have strong similarity to arginyl-tRNA synthetase, glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase and glutamyl-tRNA synthetase in their mode of amino acid activation. The results suggest that an aaRS that does not normally require tRNA for amino acid activation can be switched to a tRNA-dependent mode.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBinding SitesCattleHumansHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsIsoleucineMolecular Sequence DataMutationProtein BindingRNA, Transfer, TrpSchiff BasesSequence AlignmentTryptophanTryptophan-tRNA LigaseValineIsoleucineRNA, Transfer, TrpSchiff BasesTryptophanTryptophan-tRNA LigaseValineWARS1 protein, human

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