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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2016

C-terminal Domain of Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase from Pathogenic Candida albicans Recognizes both tRNASer and tRNALeu.

Quan-Quan Ji, Zhi-Peng Fang, Qing Ye, Zhi-Rong Ruan, Xiao-Long Zhou, En-Duo Wang

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Quan-Quan JiFrom the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China and.
Zhi-Peng FangFrom the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China and.
Qing YeFrom the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China and.
Zhi-Rong RuanFrom the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China and.
Xiao-Long ZhouFrom the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China and xlzhou@sibcb.ac.cn.
En-Duo WangFrom the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, 319 Yue Yang Road, 200031 Shanghai, China edwang@sibcb.ac.cn.
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNCenter for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leucyl-tRNA synthetase (LeuRS) is a multidomain enzyme that catalyzes Leu-tRNA(Leu) formation and is classified into bacterial and archaeal/eukaryotic types with significant diversity in the C-terminal domain (CTD). CTDs of both bacterial and archaeal LeuRSs have been reported to recognize tRNA(Leu) through different modes of interaction. In the human pathogen Candida albicans, the cytoplasmic LeuRS (CaLeuRS) is distinguished by its capacity to recognize a uniquely evolved chimeric tRNA(Ser) (CatRNA(Ser)(CAG)) in addition to its cognate CatRNA(Leu), leading to CUG codon reassignment. Our previous study showed that eukaryotic but not archaeal LeuRSs recognize this peculiar tRNA(Ser), suggesting the significance of their highly divergent CTDs in tRNA(Ser) recognition. The results of this study provided the first evidence of the indispensable function of the CTD of eukaryotic LeuRS in recognizing non-cognate CatRNA(Ser) and cognate CatRNA(Leu). Three lysine residues were identified as involved in mediating enzyme-tRNA interaction in the leucylation process: mutation of all three sites totally ablated the leucylation activity. The importance of the three lysine residues was further verified by gel mobility shift assays and complementation of a yeast leuS gene knock-out strain.

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Models, MolecularAmino Acid SequenceAmino Acid SubstitutionBinding SitesCandida albicansConserved SequenceFungal ProteinsGene Knockout TechniquesLeucine-tRNA LigaseLysineMutant ProteinsNucleic Acid ConformationPhylogenyProtein ConformationProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsFungal ProteinsLeucine-tRNA LigaseLysineMutant ProteinsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsRNA, FungalRNA, Transfer, LeuRNA, Transfer, Serseryl-tRNA(CAG)aminoacyl-tRNA synthetaseCandida albicansC-terminal domain (carboxyl tail domain, CTD)enzyme mechanismrecognitiontransfer RNA (tRNA)tRNALeutRNASer

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