PMID:12787471

Citation	Hughes, SJ, Tanner, JA, Hindley, AD, Miller, AD and Gould, IR (2003) Functional asymmetry in the lysyl-tRNA synthetase explored by molecular dynamics, free energy calculations and experiment. BMC Struct. Biol. 3:5
Abstract	Charging of transfer-RNA with cognate amino acid is accomplished by the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and proceeds through an aminoacyl adenylate intermediate. The lysyl-tRNA synthetase has evolved an active site that specifically binds lysine and ATP. Previous molecular dynamics simulations of the heat-inducible Escherichia coli lysyl-tRNA synthetase, LysU, have revealed differences in the binding of ATP and aspects of asymmetry between the nominally equivalent active sites of this dimeric enzyme. The possibility that this asymmetry results in different binding affinities for the ligands is addressed here by a parallel computational and biochemical study.
Links	PubMed PMC165585 Online version:10.1186/1472-6807-3-5
Keywords	Adenosine Triphosphate/chemistry; Binding Sites/physiology; Calorimetry; Catalysis; Circular Dichroism; Computer Simulation; Dimerization; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Ligands; Lysine/chemistry; Lysine-tRNA Ligase/chemistry; Models, Chemical; Protein Binding/physiology; Protein Conformation; Spectrometry, Fluorescence; Thermodynamics
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