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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 280, Issue 25, Pages 23966-23977Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M414259200
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Steady-state and transient kinetic analyses of glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase ( GlnRS) reveal that the enzyme discriminates against noncognate glutamate at multiple steps during the overall aminoacylation reaction. A major portion of the selectivity arises in the amino acid activation portion of the reaction, whereas the discrimination in the overall two-step reaction arises from very weak binding of noncognate glutamate. Further transient kinetics experiments showed that tRNAGln binds to GlnRS similar to 60-fold weaker when noncognate glutamate is present and that glutamate reduces the association rate of tRNA with the enzyme by 100-fold. These findings demonstrate that amino acid and tRNA binding are interdependent and reveal an important additional source of specificity in the aminoacylation reaction. Crystal structures of the GlnRS(.)tRNA complex bound to either amino acid have previously shown that glutamine and glutamate bind in distinct positions in the active site, providing a structural basis for the amino acid-dependent modulation of tRNA affinity. Together with other crystallographic data showing that ligand binding is essential to assembly of the GlnRS active site, these findings suggest a model for specificity generation in which required induced-fit rearrangements are significantly modulated by the identities of the bound substrates.
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