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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23010314
Keywords
arginylation; arginyltrasferase; tRNA; arginine; arginine metabolism
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Protein arginylation is an important posttranslational modification that transfers the amino acid Arg from tRNA to proteins and peptides. Our study demonstrates that the availability of free Arg is a potentially rate-limiting factor for arginylation.
Protein arginylation, mediated by arginyltransferase ATE1, is a posttranslational modification of emerging biological importance that consists of transfer of the amino acid Arg from tRNA to protein and peptide targets. ATE1 can bind tRNA and exhibits specificity toward particular tRNA types, but its dependence on the availability of the major components of the arginylation reaction has never been explored. Here we investigated key intracellular factors that can potentially regulate arginylation in vivo, including several tRNA types that show strong binding to ATE1, as well as availability of free Arg, in an attempt to identify intracellular rate limiting steps for this enzyme. Our results demonstrate that, while modulation of tRNA levels in cells does not lead to any changes in intracellular arginylation efficiency, availability of free Arg is a potentially rate-limiting factor that facilitates arginylation if added to the cultured cells. Our results broadly outline global pathways that may be involved in the regulation of arginylation in vivo.
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