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Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase in complex with AlocLys-AMP and PNP
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Structural highlights
FunctionPYLS_METMA Catalyzes the attachment of pyrrolysine to tRNA(Pyl). Pyrrolysine is a lysine derivative encoded by the termination codon UAG (By similarity). Evolutionary Conservation![]() Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMedPyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) esterifies pyrrolysine to tRNA(Pyl). In this study, N(epsilon)-(tert-butyloxycarbonyl)-L-lysine (BocLys) and N(epsilon)-allyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine (AlocLys) were esterified to tRNA(Pyl) by PylRS. Crystal structures of a PylRS catalytic fragment complexed with BocLys and an ATP analog and with AlocLys-AMP revealed that PylRS requires an N(epsilon)-carbonyl group bearing a substituent with a certain size. A PylRS(Y384F) mutant obtained by random screening exhibited higher in vitro aminoacylation and in vivo amber suppression activities with BocLys, AlocLys, and pyrrolysine than those of the wild-type PylRS. Furthermore, the structure-based Y306A mutation of PylRS drastically increased the in vitro aminoacylation activity for N(epsilon)-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine (ZLys). A PylRS with both the Y306A and Y384F mutations enabled the large-scale preparation (>10 mg per liter medium) of proteins site-specifically containing N(epsilon)-(o-azidobenzyloxycarbonyl)-L-lysine (AzZLys). The AzZLys-containing protein was labeled with a fluorescent probe, by Staudinger ligation. Multistep engineering of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase to genetically encode N(epsilon)-(o-azidobenzyloxycarbonyl) lysine for site-specific protein modification.,Yanagisawa T, Ishii R, Fukunaga R, Kobayashi T, Sakamoto K, Yokoyama S Chem Biol. 2008 Nov 24;15(11):1187-97. PMID:19022179[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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