Title: Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Crystallographic Analysis of Yeast Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase Complexed with Its Cognate tRNA
Volume: 13
Issue: 4
Author(s): Yoshio Kusakabe, Satoshi Ohno, Nobutada Tanaka, Masashi Nakamura, Masaru Tsunoda, Tomohisa Moriguchi, Norio Asai, Mitsuo Sekine, Takashi Yokogawa, Kazuya Nishikawa and Kazuo T. Nakamura
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Keywords:
aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, crystallization, tRNA, TyrRS
Abstract: Yeast tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (yTyrRS) has been crystallized by the vapor diffusion method in the presence of its cognate tRNATyr. The crystals belong to a tetragonal space group P41212 with cell dimensions of a = b = 63.85 Å, and c = 330.3 Å. The asymmetric unit contains one molecule each of yTyrRS and tRNATyr (one-half of a 2:2 complex). Xray diffraction data have been collected up to 2.5 Å resolution.