Methionyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli. Primary structure of the active crystallised tryptic fragment.
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Barker DG, Ebel JP, Jakes R, Bruton CJ
Methionyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli. Primary structure of the active crystallised tryptic fragment.
Eur J Biochem. 1982 Oct;127(3):449-57.
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A 3300-base segment of Escherichia coli chromosomal DNA, cloned into pBR322, will complement a methionine auxotroph in which the lesion is a defective methionyl-tRNA synthetase with a much reduced affinity for methionine. Crude extracts of these transformants contain elevated levels of a protein which has a subunit molecular weight of 66 000, methionyl-tRNA synthetase aminoacylation activity in vitro and which cross-reacts with anti-(methionyl-tRNA synthetase) antibodies. This polypeptide is very slightly larger than the well-characterised and crystallised tryptic fragment of methionyl-tRNA synthetase. A DNA sequence of 1750 residues at one end of the cloned insert codes for a non-terminated open reading frame in which we can locate a large number of methionyl-tRNA synthetase tryptic and chymotryptic peptides. We have also sequenced 300 nucleotides upstream of this coding segment where we find a large invert repeat in the putative methionyl-tRNA synthetase promoter region.