Interdomain compactization in human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase studied by the hierarchical rotations technique
S O Yesylevskyy1, O V Savytskyi, K A Odynets
1Department of Physics of Biological Systems, Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. yesint3@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are key enzymes of protein biosynthesis which usually possess multidomain structures. Mammalian tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase is composed of two structural modules: N-terminal catalytic core and an EMAPII-like C-terminal domain separated by long flexible linker. The structure of full-length human cytoplasmic tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase is still unknown. The structures of isolated N-terminal and C-terminal domains of the protein are resolved, but their compact packing in a functional enzyme is a subject of debates. In this work we studied putative compactization of the N- and C-terminal modules of human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase by the coarse-grained hierarchical rotations technique (HIEROT). The large number of distinct types of binding interfaces between N- and C-terminal modules is revealed in the absence of enzyme substrates. The binding propensities of different residues are computed and several binding "hot spots" are observed on the surfaces of N and C modules. These results could be used to govern atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, which will sample preferable binding interfaces effectively.
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