Publications 2002

Schauer, S., Chaturvedi, S., Randau, L., Moser, J., Kitabatake, M., Lorenz, S., Verkamp, E., Schubert, W.-D., Nakayashiki, T. Murai, M., Wall, K., Thomann, U., Heinz, D., Inokuchi, H., Söll, D. and Jahn, D. (2002) Escherichia coli glutamyl-tRNA reductase: trapping the thioester intermediate. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 48657-48663. Abstract


Rosas-Sandoval, G., Ambrogelly, A., Rinehart, J., Wei, D., Cruz-Vera, L.R., Graham, D.E., Stetter, K.O., Guarneros, G. and Söll, D. (2002) Orthologs of a novel archaeal and of the bacterial peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase are nonessential in yeast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 16707-16712. Abstract


Gruic-Sovulj, I., Landeka, I., Söll, D. and Weygand-Durasevic, I. (2002) tRNA-dependent amino acid discrimination by yeast seryl-tRNA synthetase. Eur. J. Biochem. 269, 5271-5279. Abstract


Tumbula-Hansen, D., Feng, L., Toogood, H., Stetter, K.O. and Söll, D. (2002) Evolutionary divergence of the archaeal aspartyl-RNA synthetases into discriminating and non-discriminating forms. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 37184-37190. Abstract


Korencic, D., Söll, D. and Ambrogelly, A. (2002) A one-step method for in vitro production of tRNA transcripts. Nucleic Acids Res. 30, E105-5. Abstract


Ahel, I., Stathopoulos, C., Ambrogelly, A., Sauerwald, A., Toogood, H., Hartsch, T. and Söll, D. (2002) Cysteine activation is an inherent property of prolyl-tRNA synthetases. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 34743-34748. Abstract


Ambrogelly, A., Ahel, I., Polycarpo, C., Bunjun-Srihari, S., Krett, B., Jacquin-Becker, C., Köhrer, C., Stathopoulos, C., RajBhandary, U.L. and Söll, D. (2002) Methanocaldococcus jannaschii prolyl-tRNA synthetase charges tRNAPro with cysteine. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 34749-34754. Abstract


Kitabatake, M., Ali, K., Demain, A., Sakamoto, K., Yokoyama, S. and Söll, D. (2002) Indolmycin resistance of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) by induced expression of one of its two tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetases. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 23882-23887. Abstract


Terada, T., Nureki, O., Ishitani, R., Ambrogelly, A., Ibba, M., Söll, D. and Yokoyama, S. (2002) Functional convergence of two lysyl-tRNA synthetases with unrelated topologies. Nat. Struct. Biol. 9, 257-262. Abstract


Min, B., Pelaschier, J.T., Graham, D., Tumbula-Hansen, D. and Söll, D. (2002) Transfer RNA-dependent amino acid biosynthesis: an essential route to asparagine formation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 2678-2683. Abstract


Feng, L., Stathopoulos, C., Ahel, I., Mitra, A., Tumbula-Hansen, D., Hartsch, T. and Söll, D. (2002) Aminoacyl-tRNA formation in the hyperthermophile Thermus thermophilus. Extremophiles 6, 167-174. Abstract