YARS

Not to be confused with RS-24 Yars.
YARS
Available structures
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Identifiers
Aliases YARS, CMTDIC, TYRRS, YRS, YTS, tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase
External IDs MGI: 2147627 HomoloGene: 2730 GeneCards: YARS
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

8565

107271

Ensembl

ENSG00000134684

ENSMUSG00000028811

UniProt

P54577

Q91WQ3

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_003680

NM_134151

RefSeq (protein)

NP_003671.1

NP_598912.4

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 32.78 – 32.82 Mb Chr 4: 129.19 – 129.22 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Wikidata
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Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the YARS gene.[3][4][5]

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.[5]Recently, tyrosyl tRNA synthetase (TyrRS) has been demonstrated as the biologically and functionally significant target for resveratrol[6]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.1.166. PMC 40199Freely accessible. PMID 8552597.
  4. 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.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: YARS tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase".
  6. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14028.html

Further reading


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