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Molecular evolution: aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases on the loose
1Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, 06520-8024, USA. weiner@biomed.med. yale.edu
Current Biology : CB
|November 27, 1999
Abstract:
Modified versions - paralogs - of the catalytic domain of at least three different aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases have been found to serve catalytic or regulatory roles in other reactions. These findings suggest that the first modern tRNA-synthetases could have been derived from amino-acid biosynthetic enzymes.