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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 2286-2293Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1176
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Science Foundation
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0950474] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Mature tRNA(His) has at its 5'-terminus an extra guanylate, designated as G(-1). This is the major recognition element for histidyl-tRNA synthetase (HisRS) to permit acylation of tRNA(His) with histidine. However, it was reported that tRNA(His) of a subgroup of alpha-proteobacteria, including Caulobacter crescentus, lacks the critical G(-1) residue. Here we show that recombinant C. crescentus HisRS allowed complete histidylation of a C. crescentus tRNA(His) transcript (lacking G(-1)). The addition of G(-1) did not improve aminoacylation by C. crescentus HisRS. However, mutations in the tRNA(His) anticodon caused a drastic loss of in vitro histidylation, and mutations of bases A73 and U72 also reduced charging. Thus, the major recognition elements in C. crescentus tRNA(His) are the anticodon, the discriminator base and U72, which are recognized by the divergent (based on sequence similarity) C. crescentus HisRS. Transplantation of these recognition elements into an Escherichia coli tRNA(His) template, together with addition of base U20a, created a competent substrate for C. crescentus HisRS. These results illustrate how a conserved tRNA recognition pattern changed during evolution. The data also uncovered a divergent orthogonal HisRS/tRNA(His) pair.
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