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MOLECULAR CELL
卷 25, 期 6, 页码 851-862出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.02.010
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 48519, GM 78227] Funding Source: Medline
The emergence of polypeptide catalysts for amino acid activation the slowest step in protein synthesis, poses significant puzzle associated with the origin of biology. This problem is compounded as the 20 contemporary aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases belong to two quite distinct families. We describe here the use of protein design to show experimentally that a minimal class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase active site might have functioned in the distant past. We deleted the anticodon binding domain from tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase and fused the discontinuous segments comprising its active site. The resulting 130 residue minimal catalytic domain activates tryptophan. This residual catalytic activity constitutes the first experimental evidence that the conserved class I signature sequences, HIGH and KMSKS, might have arisen in-frame, opposite motifs 2 and 1 from class II, as complementary sense and antisense strands of the same ancestral gene.
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