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TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES
Volume 30, Issue 10, Pages 569-574Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2005.08.004
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Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are essential enzymes that join amino acids to tRNAs, thereby linking the genetic code to specific amino acids. Once considered a class of 'housekeeping' enzymes, ARSs are now known to participate in a wide variety of functions, including transcription, translation, splicing, inflammation, angiogenesis and apoptosis. Three nonenzymatic proteins ARS-interacting multi-functional proteins (AIMPs) associate with ARSs in a multi-synthetase complex of higher eukaryotes. Similarly to ARSs, AIMPs have novel functions unrelated to their support role in protein synthesis, acting as a cytokine to control angiogenesis, immune response and wound repair, and as a crucial regulator for cell proliferation and DNA repair. Evaluation of the functional roles of individual ARSs and AIMPs might help to elucidate why these proteins as a whole contribute such varied functions and interactions in complex systems.
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