YARS

Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase

PDB rendering based on 1n3l.

Available structures
PDB	1N3L, 1NTG, 1Q11

Identifiers

Symbols

YARS; CMTDIC; TYRRS; YRS; YTS

External IDs

OMIM: 603623 MGI: 2147627 HomoloGene: 2730 GeneCards: YARS Gene

EC number

6.1.1.1

Gene Ontology
Molecular function	• tRNA binding • nucleotide binding • tyrosine-tRNA ligase activity • signal transducer activity • interleukin-8 receptor binding • protein binding • ATP binding • ligase activity
Cellular component	• extracellular space • soluble fraction • nucleus • cytoplasm • cytosol
Biological process	• tRNA aminoacylation for protein translation • tyrosyl-tRNA aminoacylation • apoptosis • signal transduction • gene expression
Sources: Amigo / QuickGO

RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs

Species

Human

Mouse

RefSeq (mRNA)

RefSeq (protein)

Location (UCSC)

Chr 1:
33.24 – 33.28 Mb

Chr 4:
128.87 – 128.9 Mb

PubMed search

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[2]

Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the YARS gene.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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. Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase belongs to the class I tRNA synthetase family. Cytokine activities have also been observed for the human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase, after it is split into two parts, an N-terminal fragment that harbors the catalytic site and a C-terminal fragment found only in the mammalian enzyme. The N-terminal fragment is an interleukin-8-like cytokine, whereas the released C-terminal fragment is an EMAP II-like cytokine.^[3]

References

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^ Kleeman TA, Wei D, Simpson KL, First EA (Jun 1997). "Human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase shares amino acid sequence homology with a putative cytokine". J Biol Chem 272 (22): 14420–5. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.22.14420. PMID 9162081.
^ ^a ^b "Entrez Gene: YARS tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=8565.

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PDB gallery

1n3l: Crystal structure of a human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase cytokine

1ntg: Crystal Structure of the EMAP II-like Cytokine Released from human tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase

1q11: Crystal structure of an active fragment of human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase with tyrosinol

YARS

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Further reading