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WARS2
Introduction
Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the WARS2 gene.[1][2][3]
Function
Function
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyze the aminoacylation of tRNA by their cognate amino acid. Because of their central role in linking amino acids with nucleotide triplets contained in tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are thought to be among the first proteins that appeared in evolution. Two forms of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase exist, a cytoplasmic form, named WARS, and a mitochondrial form, named WARS2. This gene encodes the mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase. Two alternative transcripts encoding different isoforms have been described.[3]
References
References
- ↑ Martinez-Dominguez MT, Justesen J, Kruse TA, Hansen LL (Mar 1999). “Assignment of the human mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (WARS2) to 1p13.3→p13.1 by radiation hybrid mapping”. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 83 (3–4): 249–50. doi:10.1159/000015196. PMID 10072595.
- ↑ Jorgensen R, Søgaard TM, Rossing AB, Martensen PM, Justesen J (Jul 2000). “Identification and characterization of human mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase”. J Biol Chem. 275 (22): 16820–6. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.22.16820. PMID 10828066.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: WARS2 tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial”.
Further reading
Further reading
- Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). “Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides”. Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
- Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, Suyama A, Sugano S (1997). “Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5′-end-enriched cDNA library”. Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
- Liu J, Shue E, Ewalt KL, Schimmel P (2004). “A new gamma-interferon-inducible promoter and splice variants of an anti-angiogenic human tRNA synthetase”. Nucleic Acids Res. 32 (2): 719–27. doi:10.1093/nar/gkh240. PMC 373357. PMID 14757836.
- Oh JH, Yang JO, Hahn Y, Kim MR, Byun SS, Jeon YJ, Kim JM, Song KS, Noh SM, Kim S, Yoo HS, Kim YS, Kim NS (2006). “Transcriptome analysis of human gastric cancer”. Mamm. Genome. 16 (12): 942–54. doi:10.1007/s00335-005-0075-2. PMID 16341674.
- Guo LT, Chen XL, Zhao BT, Shi Y, Li W, Xue H, Jin YX (2007). “Human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase is switched to a tRNA-dependent mode for tryptophan activation by mutations at V85 and I311”. Nucleic Acids Res. 35 (17): 5934–43. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm633. PMC 2034488. PMID 17726052.
External links
External links
- WARS2 human gene location in the UCSC Genome Browser.
- WARS2 human gene details in the UCSC Genome Browser.