Abstract:
:This study reports the X-ray crystallographic structure of the glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GlyRS) of Nanoarchaeum equitans - a hyperthermophilic archaeal species. This is the first archaeal GlyRS crystal structure elucidated. The GlyRS comprises an N-terminal catalytic domain and a C-terminal anticodon-binding domain with a long β-sheet inserted between these domains. An unmodified transcript of the wild-type N. equitans tRNAGly was successfully glycylated using GlyRS. Substitution of the discriminator base A73 of tRNAGly with any other nucleotide caused a significant decrease in glycylation activity. Mutational analysis of the second base-pair C2G71 of the acceptor stem of tRNAGly elucidated the importance of the base-pair, especially G71, as an identity element for recognition by GlyRS. Glycylation assays using tRNAGly G71 substitution mutants and a GlyRS mutant where Arg223 is mutated to alanine strengthen the possibility that the carbonyl oxygen at position 6 of G71 would hydrogen-bond with the guanidine nitrogen of Arg223 in N. equitans GlyRS.
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Fujisawa A,Toki R,Miyake H,Shoji T,Doi H,Hayashi H,Hanabusa R,Mutsuro-Aoki H,Umehara T,Ando T,Noguchi H,Voet A,Park SY,Tamura Kdoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.01.142subject
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2019-04-02 00:00:00pages
228-233issue
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0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(19)30176-7journal_volume
511pub_type
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