Structual basis of azido-tyrosine recognition by engineered bacterial Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetaseStructual basis of azido-tyrosine recognition by engineered bacterial Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase

Structural highlights

2yxn is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. W3110. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.8Å
Ligands:
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Function

SYY_ECOLI Catalyzes the attachment of tyrosine to tRNA(Tyr) in a two-step reaction: tyrosine is first activated by ATP to form Tyr-AMP and then transferred to the acceptor end of tRNA(Tyr).[HAMAP-Rule:MF_02006]

Evolutionary Conservation

 

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Non-natural amino acids have been genetically encoded in living cells, using aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNA pairs orthogonal to the host translation system. In the present study, we engineered Escherichia coli cells with a translation system orthogonal to the E. coli tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (TyrRS)-tRNA(Tyr) pair, to use E. coli TyrRS variants for non-natural amino acids in the cells without interfering with tyrosine incorporation. We showed that the E. coli TyrRS-tRNA(Tyr) pair can be functionally replaced by the Methanocaldococcus jannaschii and Saccharomyces cerevisiae tyrosine pairs, which do not cross-react with E. coli TyrRS or tRNA(Tyr). The endogenous TyrRS and tRNA(Tyr) genes were then removed from the chromosome of the E. coli cells expressing the archaeal TyrRS-tRNA(Tyr) pair. In this engineered strain, 3-iodo-L-tyrosine and 3-azido-L-tyrosine were each successfully encoded with the amber codon, using the E. coli amber suppressor tRNATyr and a TyrRS variant, which was previously developed for 3-iodo-L-tyrosine and was also found to recognize 3-azido-L-tyrosine. The structural basis for the 3-azido-L-tyrosine recognition was revealed by X-ray crystallography. The present engineering allows E. coli TyrRS variants for non-natural amino acids to be developed in E. coli, for use in both eukaryotic and bacterial cells for genetic code expansion.

Functional replacement of the endogenous tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNATyr pair by the archaeal tyrosine pair in Escherichia coli for genetic code expansion.,Iraha F, Oki K, Kobayashi T, Ohno S, Yokogawa T, Nishikawa K, Yokoyama S, Sakamoto K Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jun;38(11):3682-91. Epub 2010 Feb 16. PMID:20159998[1]

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References

  1. Iraha F, Oki K, Kobayashi T, Ohno S, Yokogawa T, Nishikawa K, Yokoyama S, Sakamoto K. Functional replacement of the endogenous tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNATyr pair by the archaeal tyrosine pair in Escherichia coli for genetic code expansion. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jun;38(11):3682-91. Epub 2010 Feb 16. PMID:20159998 doi:10.1093/nar/gkq080

2yxn, resolution 1.80Å

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