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    Two distinct cytokines released from a human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (1999)
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    Publication Date: 1999-04-02
    Description: Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyze aminoacylation of transfer RNAs (tRNAs). It is shown that human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase can be split into two fragments with distinct cytokine activities. The endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II-like carboxy-terminal domain has potent leukocyte and monocyte chemotaxis activity and stimulates production of myeloperoxidase, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and tissue factor. The catalytic amino-terminal domain binds to the interleukin-8 type A receptor and functions as an interleukin-8-like cytokine. Under apoptotic conditions in cell culture, the full-length enzyme is secreted, and the two cytokine activities can be generated by leukocyte elastase, an extracellular protease. Secretion of this tRNA synthetase may contribute to apoptosis both by arresting translation and producing needed cytokines.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wakasugi, K -- Schimmel, P -- GM23562/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 2;284(5411):147-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Beckman Center, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10102815" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, CD/metabolism ; Apoptosis ; Binding, Competitive ; Catalytic Domain ; Chemotaxis, Leukocyte ; *Cytokines ; Humans ; Interleukin-8/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Leukocyte Elastase/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Monocytes/physiology ; Neoplasm Proteins/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Neutrophils/metabolism/physiology ; RNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Receptors, Interleukin/metabolism ; Receptors, Interleukin-8A ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase/chemistry/*metabolism/pharmacology
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    Enzyme structure with two catalytic sites for double-sieve selection of substrate (1998)
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    Publication Date: 1998-05-09
    Description: High-fidelity transfers of genetic information in the central dogma can be achieved by a reaction called editing. The crystal structure of an enzyme with editing activity in translation is presented here at 2.5 angstroms resolution. The enzyme, isoleucyl-transfer RNA synthetase, activates not only the cognate substrate L-isoleucine but also the minimally distinct L-valine in the first, aminoacylation step. Then, in a second, "editing" step, the synthetase itself rapidly hydrolyzes only the valylated products. For this two-step substrate selection, a "double-sieve" mechanism has already been proposed. The present crystal structures of the synthetase in complexes with L-isoleucine and L-valine demonstrate that the first sieve is on the aminoacylation domain containing the Rossmann fold, whereas the second, editing sieve exists on a globular beta-barrel domain that protrudes from the aminoacylation domain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nureki, O -- Vassylyev, D G -- Tateno, M -- Shimada, A -- Nakama, T -- Fukai, S -- Konno, M -- Hendrickson, T L -- Schimmel, P -- Yokoyama, S -- GM15539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 24;280(5363):578-82.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9554847" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Monophosphate ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Hydrolysis ; Isoleucine/*metabolism ; Isoleucine-tRNA Ligase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Chemical ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; RNA, Transfer, Ile/metabolism ; Substrate Specificity ; Thermus thermophilus/enzymology ; Transfer RNA Aminoacylation ; Valine/*metabolism
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    Enlarging the amino acid set of Escherichia coli by infiltration of the valine coding pathway (2001)
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    Publication Date: 2001-04-21
    Description: Aminoacyl transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetases establish the rules of the genetic code by catalyzing the aminoacylation of tRNAs. For some synthetases, accuracy depends critically on an editing function at a site distinct from the aminoacylation site. Mutants of Escherichia coli that incorrectly charge tRNA(Val) with cysteine were selected after random mutagenesis of the whole chromosome. All mutations obtained were located in the editing site of valyl-tRNA synthetase. More than 20% of the valine in cellular proteins from such an editing mutant organism could be replaced with the noncanonical aminobutyrate, sterically similar to cysteine. Thus, the editing function may have played a central role in restricting the genetic code to 20 amino acids. Disabling this editing function offers a powerful approach for diversifying the chemical composition of proteins and for emulating evolutionary stages of ambiguous translation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Doring, V -- Mootz, H D -- Nangle, L A -- Hendrickson, T L -- de Crecy-Lagard, V -- Schimmel, P -- Marliere, P -- GM23562/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Apr 20;292(5516):501-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Evologic SA, 4 rue Pierre Fontaine, 91000 Evry, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11313495" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Aminobutyrates/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Codon ; Cysteine/metabolism ; Escherichia coli/*genetics/growth & development/metabolism ; *Genetic Code ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis ; Phenotype ; *Protein Biosynthesis ; RNA, Bacterial/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Val/*metabolism ; Suppression, Genetic ; Threonine/metabolism ; Transfer RNA Aminoacylation ; Valine/metabolism ; Valine-tRNA Ligase/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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    Discrete determinants in transfer RNA for editing and aminoacylation (1997)
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    Publication Date: 1997-05-23
    Description: During translation errors of aminoacylation are corrected in editing reactions which ensure that an amino acid is stably attached to its corresponding transfer RNA (tRNA). Previous studies have not shown whether the tRNA nucleotides needed for effecting translational editing are the same as or distinct from those required for aminoacylation, but several considerations have suggested that they are the same. Here, designed tRNAs that are highly active for aminoacylation but are not active in translational editing are presented. The editing reaction can be controlled by manipulation of nucleotides at the corner of the L-shaped tRNA. In contrast, these manipulations do not affect aminoacylation. These results demonstrate the segregation of nucleotide determinants for the editing and aminoacylation functions of tRNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hale, S P -- Auld, D S -- Schmidt, E -- Schimmel, P -- GM15539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 May 23;276(5316):1250-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9157882" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cloning, Molecular ; Escherichia coli ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *RNA Editing ; RNA, Transfer/*metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Ile/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Val/chemistry/metabolism
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    Perspectives: protein synthesis. All you need is RNA (1998)
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    Publication Date: 1998-08-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schimmel, P -- Alexander, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 31;281(5377):658-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Scripps Research Institute, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. schimmel@scripps.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9714675" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Algorithms ; Anticodon ; Codon ; Escherichia coli/metabolism ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *Peptide Biosynthesis ; Peptidyl Transferases/*metabolism ; RNA, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/chemistry/*metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/chemistry/*metabolism ; Ribosomes/metabolism ; Templates, Genetic
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    Distinct domains of tRNA synthetase recognize the same base pair (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2008-01-04
    Description: Synthesis of proteins containing errors (mistranslation) is prevented by aminoacyl transfer RNA synthetases through their accurate aminoacylation of cognate tRNAs and their ability to correct occasional errors of aminoacylation by editing reactions. A principal source of mistranslation comes from mistaking glycine or serine for alanine, which can lead to serious cell and animal pathologies, including neurodegeneration. A single specific G.U base pair (G3.U70) marks a tRNA for aminoacylation by alanyl-tRNA synthetase. Mistranslation occurs when glycine or serine is joined to the G3.U70-containing tRNAs, and is prevented by the editing activity that clears the mischarged amino acid. Previously it was assumed that the specificity for recognition of tRNA(Ala) for editing was provided by the same structural determinants as used for aminoacylation. Here we show that the editing site of alanyl-tRNA synthetase, as an artificial recombinant fragment, targets mischarged tRNA(Ala) using a structural motif unrelated to that for aminoacylation so that, remarkably, two motifs (one for aminoacylation and one for editing) in the same enzyme independently can provide determinants for tRNA(Ala) recognition. The structural motif for editing is also found naturally in genome-encoded protein fragments that are widely distributed in evolution. These also recognize mischarged tRNA(Ala). Thus, through evolution, three different complexes with the same tRNA can guard against mistaking glycine or serine for alanine.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Beebe, Kirk -- Mock, Marissa -- Merriman, Eve -- Schimmel, Paul -- England -- Nature. 2008 Jan 3;451(7174):90-3. doi: 10.1038/nature06454.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology and Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18172502" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alanine-tRNA Ligase/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Amino Acid Motifs ; *Base Pairing ; Binding Sites ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Peptide Fragments/chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Biosynthesis ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Transfer, Ala/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Substrate Specificity
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    Paradox of mistranslation of serine for alanine caused by AlaRS recognition dilemma (2009)
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    Publication Date: 2009-12-17
    Description: Mistranslation arising from confusion of serine for alanine by alanyl-tRNA synthetases (AlaRSs) has profound functional consequences. Throughout evolution, two editing checkpoints prevent disease-causing mistranslation from confusing glycine or serine for alanine at the active site of AlaRS. In both bacteria and mice, Ser poses a bigger challenge than Gly. One checkpoint is the AlaRS editing centre, and the other is from widely distributed AlaXps-free-standing, genome-encoded editing proteins that clear Ser-tRNA(Ala). The paradox of misincorporating both a smaller (glycine) and a larger (serine) amino acid suggests a deep conflict for nature-designed AlaRS. Here we show the chemical basis for this conflict. Nine crystal structures, together with kinetic and mutational analysis, provided snapshots of adenylate formation for each amino acid. An inherent dilemma is posed by constraints of a structural design that pins down the alpha-amino group of the bound amino acid by using an acidic residue. This design, dating back more than 3 billion years, creates a serendipitous interaction with the serine OH that is difficult to avoid. Apparently because no better architecture for the recognition of alanine could be found, the serine misactivation problem was solved through free-standing AlaXps, which appeared contemporaneously with early AlaRSs. The results reveal unconventional problems and solutions arising from the historical design of the protein synthesis machinery.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2799227/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2799227/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Guo, Min -- Chong, Yeeting E -- Shapiro, Ryan -- Beebe, Kirk -- Yang, Xiang-Lei -- Schimmel, Paul -- GM 15539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM015539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM015539-43/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Dec 10;462(7274):808-12. doi: 10.1038/nature08612.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, BCC-379, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20010690" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alanine/*metabolism ; Alanine-tRNA Ligase/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Aspartic Acid/genetics/metabolism ; Catalytic Domain ; Crystallization ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology ; Kinetics ; Models, Molecular ; Mutation ; *Protein Biosynthesis ; Protein Conformation ; RNA, Transfer, Ala/metabolism ; Serine/*metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Alexander Rich (1924-2015) (2015)
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    Publication Date: 2015-05-23
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schimmel, Paul -- England -- Nature. 2015 May 21;521(7552):291. doi: 10.1038/521291a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, and La Jolla, California. He was a colleague of Alexander Rich at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge from 1967 onwards.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25993953" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Biotechnology/history ; Collagen/chemistry/history ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA, Z-Form/chemistry/*history ; History, 20th Century ; *Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Peptides/chemistry/history ; Polyribosomes/metabolism ; RNA/chemistry/history ; United States
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    Reversal of creatine kinase translational repression by 3' untranslated sequences (1990)
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    Publication Date: 1990-05-25
    Description: A subline of U937 cells (U937D) was obtained in which creatine kinase B (CK-B) messenger RNA was present and bound to ribosomes, but CK activity was undetectable. Transformation of U937D cells with retrovirus vectors that contain the 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) of CK-B messenger RNA exhibited CK activity with no change in abundance of CK-B mRNA. The 3' UTR formed a complex in vitro with a component of S100 extracts from wild-type cells. This binding activity was not detectable in S100 extracts from cells that expressed CK activity after transformation with the 3' UTR-containing vector. These results suggest that translation of CK-B is repressed by binding of a soluble factor or factors to the 3' UTR.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ch'ng, J L -- Shoemaker, D L -- Schimmel, P -- Holmes, E W -- GM34366/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA 47631-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 May 25;248(4958):1003-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2343304" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; Cloning, Molecular ; Creatine Kinase/*genetics ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Humans ; Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase/genetics ; Polyribosomes/metabolism ; *Protein Biosynthesis ; RNA, Messenger/*genetics
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    Specificity for aminoacylation of an RNA helix: an unpaired, exocyclic amino group in the minor groove (1991)
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    Publication Date: 1991-08-16
    Description: An acceptor stem G3.U70 base pair is a major determinant of the identity of an alanine transfer RNA. Hairpin helices and RNA duplexes consisting of complementary single strands are aminoacylated with alanine if they contain G3.U70. Chemical synthesis of RNA duplexes enabled the introduction of base analogs that tested the role of specific functional groups in the major and minor grooves of the RNA helix. The results of these experiments indicate that an unpaired guanine 2-amino group at a specific position in the minor groove of an RNA helix marks a molecule for aminoacylation with alanine.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Musier-Forsyth, K -- Usman, N -- Scaringe, S -- Doudna, J -- Green, R -- Schimmel, P -- GM15539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM37641/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 Aug 16;253(5021):784-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1876835" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acylation ; Alanine-tRNA Ligase/*metabolism ; Base Sequence ; In Vitro Techniques ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Oligonucleotides/chemistry ; RNA, Transfer, Ala/chemistry/*metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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