A SINGLE GLUTAMYL-TRANSFER RNA-SYNTHETASE AMINOACYLATES TRANSFER-RNA GLU AND TRANSFER-RNA GLN IN BACILLUS-SUBTILIS AND EFFICIENTLY MISACYLATES ESCHERICHIA-COLI TRANSFER RNA1GLN INVITRO
A SINGLE GLUTAMYL-TRANSFER RNA-SYNTHETASE AMINOACYLATES TRANSFER-RNA GLU AND TRANSFER-RNA GLN IN BACILLUS-SUBTILIS AND EFFICIENTLY MISACYLATES ESCHERICHIA-COLI TRANSFER RNA1GLN INVITRO
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.165.1.88-93.1986
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发表时间:
1986-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
PROULX, M
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作者:
LAPOINTE, J;DUPLAIN, L;PROULX, M
In the presence or absence of its regulatory factor, the monomeric glutamyl-tRNA synthetase from Bacillus subtilis can aminoacylate in vitro with glutamate both tRNAGlu and tRNAGln from B. subtilis and tRNA1Gln but not tRNA2Gln or tRNAGlu from Escherichia coli. The Km and Vmax values of the enzyme for its substrates in these homologous or heterologous aminoacylation reactions are very similar. This enzyme is the only aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase reported to aminoacylate with normal kinetic parameters two tRNA species coding for different amino acids and to misacylate at a high rate a heterologous tRNA under normal aminoacylation conditions. The exceptional lack of specificity of this enzyme for its tRNAGlu and tRNAGln substrates, together with structural and catalytic peculiarities shoared with the E. coli glutamyl- and glutaminyl-tRNA synthetases, suggests the existence of a close evolutionary linkage between the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases specific for glutamate and those specific for glutamine. A comparison of the primary structures of the three tRNAs efficiently charged by the B. subtilis glutamyl-tRNA synthetase with those of E. coli tRNAGlu and tRNA2Gln suggests that this enzyme interacts with the G64-C50 or G64-U50 in the T.PSI. stem of its tRNA substrates.