title: Expression, purification, and characterization of human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase.
abstract: Human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase is a homodimeric enzyme and each subunit is near 58 KD. It catalyzes the aminoacylation of tRNA(Tyr) by L-tyrosine. The His(6)-tagged human TyrS gene was obtained by RT-PCR from total RNA of human lung giant-cell cancer strain 95 D. It was confirmed by sequencing and cloned into the expression vector pET-24 a (+) to yield pET-24 a (+)-HTyrRS, which was transfected into Escherichia coli BL21-CodonPlus-RIL. The induced-expression level of His(6)-tagged human TyrRS was about 24% of total cell proteins under IPTG inducing. The recombinant protein was conveniently purified in a single step by metal (Ni(2+)) chelate affinity chromatography. About 22.3mg purified enzyme could be obtained from 1L cell culture. The k(cat) value of His(6)-tagged human TyrRS in the second step of tRNA(Tyr) aminoacylation was 1.49 s(-1). The K(m) values of tyrosine and tRNA(Tyr) were 0.3 and 0.9 microM. Six His residues at the C terminus of human TyrRS have little effect on the activities of the enzyme compared with other eukaryotic TyrRSs.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, PR China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Youxin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Debao
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000215:Acylation; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D015870:Gene Expression; D006639:Histidine / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D012365:RNA, Transfer, Tyr / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014448:Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D012365:RNA, Transfer, Tyr; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D006639:Histidine; D014448:Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase