YARS

YARS
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesYARS, CMTDIC, TYRRS, YRS, YTS, tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase
External IDsMGI: 2147627 HomoloGene: 2730 GeneCards: YARS
Gene location (Human)
Chr.Chromosome 1 (human)[1]
BandNo data availableStart32,775,237 bp[1]
End32,818,153 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

8565

107271

Ensembl

ENSG00000134684

ENSMUSG00000028811

UniProt

P54577

Q91WQ3

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_003680

NM_134151

RefSeq (protein)

NP_003671

NP_598912

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 32.78 – 32.82 MbChr 1: 129.19 – 129.22 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic, also known as Tyrosine-tRNA ligase, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the YARS gene.[5][6][7]

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyze the aminoacylation of transfer RNA (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.[7] Recently, tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase has been demonstrated as the biologically and functionally significant target for resveratrol[8]

For a comparison of cytoplasmic human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase with its mitochondrial counterpart and with tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases of other biological kingdoms and organisms, see the Wikipedia page on Tyrosine-tRNA ligase and a general review on their structures and functions.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000134684 - Ensembl, May 2017
  2. 1 2 3 GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000028811 - Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  5. Ribas de Pouplana L, Frugier M, Quinn CL, Schimmel P (Feb 1996). "Evidence that two present-day components needed for the genetic code appeared after nucleated cells separated from eubacteria". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 93 (1): 166–70. PMC 40199Freely accessible. PMID 8552597. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.1.166.
  6. 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. PMID 9162081. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.22.14420.
  7. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: YARS tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase".
  8. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14028.html
  9. Bedouelle, Hugues. "Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetases". In: Madame Curie Bioscience Database [NCBI NBK6553]. Austin (TX): Landes Bioscience.

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