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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 45, 34845-34848, November 10, 2000

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Amino Acid Selectivity in the Aminoacylation of Coenzyme A and RNA Minihelices by Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases^*

Hieronim Jakubowski

From the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103

Coenzyme A (CoA-SH), a cofactor in carboxyl group activation reactions, carries out a function in nonribosomal peptide synthesis that is analogous to the function of tRNA in ribosomal protein synthesis. The amino acid selectivity in the synthesis of aminoacyl-thioesters by nonribosomal peptide synthetases is relaxed, whereas the amino acid selectivity in the synthesis of aminoacyl-tRNA by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases is restricted. Here I show that isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase aminoacylates CoA-SH with valine, leucine, threonine, alanine, and serine in addition to isoleucine. Valyl-tRNA synthetase catalyzes aminoacylations of CoA-SH with valine, threonine, alanine, serine, and isoleucine. Lysyl-tRNA synthetase aminoacylates CoA-SH with lysine, leucine, threonine, alanine, valine, and isoleucine. Thus, isoleucyl-, valyl-, and lysyl-tRNA synthetases behave as aminoacyl-S-CoA synthetases with relaxed amino acid selectivity. In contrast, RNA minihelices comprised of the acceptor-TC helix of tRNA^Ile or tRNA^Val were aminoacylated by cognate synthetases selectively with isoleucine or valine, respectively. These and other data support a hypothesis that the present day aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases originated from ancestral forms that were involved in noncoded thioester-dependent peptide synthesis, functionally similar to the present day nonribosomal peptide synthetases.

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