Recognition of tRNAGln by Helicobacter pylori GluRS2—a tRNAGln-specific glutamyl-tRNA synthetase
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- 15 September 2009
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 37 (20), 6942-6949
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp754
Abstract
Accurate aminoacylation of tRNAs by the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) plays a critical role in protein translation. However, some of the aaRSs are missing in many microorganisms. Helicobacter pylori does not have a glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (GlnRS) but has two divergent glutamyl-tRNA synthetases: GluRS1 and GluRS2. Like a canonical GluRS, GluRS1 aminoacylates tRNAGlu1 and tRNAGlu2. In contrast, GluRS2 only misacylates tRNAGln to form Glu-tRNAGln. It is not clear how GluRS2 achieves specific recognition of tRNAGln while rejecting the two H. pylori tRNAGlu isoacceptors. Here, we show that GluRS2 recognizes major identity elements clustered in the tRNAGln acceptor stem. Mutations in the tRNA anticodon or at the discriminator base had little to no impact on enzyme specificity and activity.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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