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1q11
From Proteopedia
| 1q11, resolution 1.60Å () | |||||||||
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| Sites: | , , , and | ||||||||
| Ligands: | , , , | ||||||||
| Activity: | Tyrosine--tRNA ligase, with EC number 6.1.1.1 | ||||||||
| Related: | 1n3l, 1ntg | ||||||||
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| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, RCSB | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | save as pdb, mmCIF, xml | ||||||||
Crystal structure of an active fragment of human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase with tyrosinol
Early forms of the genetic code likely generated "statistical" proteins, with similar side chains occupying the same sequence positions at different ratios. In this scenario, groups of related side chains were treated by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as a single molecular species until a discrimination mechanism developed that could separate them. The aromatic amino acids tryptophan, tyrosine, and phenylalanine likely constituted one of these groups. A crystal structure of human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase was solved at 2.1 A with a tryptophanyl-adenylate bound at the active site. A cocrystal structure of an active fragment of human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase with its cognate amino acid analog was also solved at 1.6 A. The two structures enabled active site identifications and provided the information for structure-based sequence alignments of approximately 45 orthologs of each enzyme. Two critical positions shared by all tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases and tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetases for amino acid discrimination were identified. The variations at these two positions and phylogenetic analyses based on the structural information suggest that, in contrast to many other amino acids, discrimination of tyrosine from tryptophan occurred late in the development of the genetic code.
Crystal structures that suggest late development of genetic code components for differentiating aromatic side chains., Yang XL, Otero FJ, Skene RJ, McRee DE, Schimmel P, Ribas de Pouplana L, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Dec 23;100(26):15376-80. Epub 2003 Dec 11. PMID:14671330
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
About this Structure
1Q11 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
- Yang XL, Otero FJ, Skene RJ, McRee DE, Schimmel P, Ribas de Pouplana L. Crystal structures that suggest late development of genetic code components for differentiating aromatic side chains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Dec 23;100(26):15376-80. Epub 2003 Dec 11. PMID:14671330 doi:10.1073/pnas.2136794100
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