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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 3, 1448-1455, Jan, 1991

The primary structure of human glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase. A highly conserved core, amino acid repeat regions, and homologies with translation elongation factors

R Fett and R Knippers
Fakultat fur Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany.

We describe the nucleotide sequences of several overlapping cDNA clones specific for human glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase. The identified open reading frame indicates that the enzyme is composed of 1440 amino acids. A stretch of about 360 amino acids of the human enzyme is highly conserved in bacterial and yeast glutaminyl-tRNA synthetases. However, the human enzyme is three times larger than the bacterial and twice as large as the yeast enzyme suggesting that a considerable part of human glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase has evolved to perform functions other than the charging of tRNA. The sequence outside of the conserved core region includes three 57-amino acid repeats followed by a consecutive stretch of 11 charged amino acids. A computer assisted search of two protein data banks reveals that the human glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase shares small blocks of amino acid similarities with several other synthetases of different amino acid specificities. Interestingly, the enzyme also possesses some regions of similarities with eukaryotic translation elongation factor EF-1 but not with any other sequence stored in the protein data banks. The coding regions of human and mouse glutaminyl- tRNA synthetase cDNAs are identical at 94% of the codons. However, the 3'-noncoding regions of mouse and human mRNAs are more divergent (approximately 68%) but both possess the potential to form stable secondary structures of similar general architecture.
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