EPRS

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Bifunctional aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the EPRS gene.

Gene

Alternative splicing has been observed for this gene, but the full-length nature and biological validity of the variant have not been determined.

Function

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are a class of enzymes that charge tRNAs with their cognate amino acids. The protein encoded by this gene is a multifunctional aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that catalyzes the aminoacylation of glutamic acid and proline tRNA species.

Phosphorylation of EPRS is reported to be essential for the formation of GAIT (Gamma-interferon Activated Inhibitor of Translation) complex that regulates the translation of multiple genes in monocytes and macrophages.

Interactions

EPRS has been shown to interact with POU2F1, Heat shock protein 90kDa alpha (cytosolic), member A1 and IARS.

Further reading

• Kaiser E, Eberhard D, Knippers R (1992). "Exons encoding the highly conserved part of human glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase". J. Mol. Evol. 34 (1): 45–53. Bibcode:1992JMolE..34...45K. doi:10.1007/BF00163851. PMID 1556743.
• Norcum MT (1991). "Structural analysis of the high molecular mass aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complex. Effects of neutral salts and detergents". J. Biol. Chem. 266 (23): 15398–405. PMID 1651330.
• Cerini C, Kerjan P, Astier M, et al. (1992). "A component of the multisynthetase complex is a multifunctional aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase". EMBO J. 10 (13): 4267–77. PMC 453179. PMID 1756734.
• Kunze N, Bittler E, Fett R, et al. (1990). "The human QARS locus: assignment of the human gene for glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase to chromosome 1q32-42". Hum. Genet. 85 (5): 527–30. doi:10.1007/BF00194231. PMID 2227938.
• Thömmes P, Fett R, Schray B, et al. (1988). "The core region of human glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase homologies with the Escherichia coli and yeast enzymes". Nucleic Acids Res. 16 (12): 5391–406. doi:10.1093/nar/16.12.5391. PMC 336774. PMID 3290852.
• Kaiser E, Hu B, Becher S, et al. (1994). "The human EPRS locus (formerly the QARS locus): a gene encoding a class I and a class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase". Genomics. 19 (2): 280–90. doi:10.1006/geno.1994.1059. PMID 8188258.
• Hillier LD, Lennon G, Becker M, et al. (1997). "Generation and analysis of 280,000 human expressed sequence tags". Genome Res. 6 (9): 807–28. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.807. PMID 8889549.
• Rho SB, Lee JS, Jeong EJ, et al. (1998). "A multifunctional repeated motif is present in human bifunctional tRNA synthetase". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (18): 11267–73. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.18.11267. PMID 9556618.
• Quevillon S, Robinson JC, Berthonneau E, et al. (1999). "Macromolecular assemblage of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases: identification of protein-protein interactions and characterization of a core protein". J. Mol. Biol. 285 (1): 183–95. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1998.2316. PMID 9878398.
• Kang J, Kim T, Ko YG, et al. (2000). "Heat shock protein 90 mediates protein-protein interactions between human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (41): 31682–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M909965199. PMID 10913161.
• Jeong EJ, Hwang GS, Kim KH, et al. (2001). "Structural analysis of multifunctional peptide motifs in human bifunctional tRNA synthetase: identification of RNA-binding residues and functional implications for tandem repeats". Biochemistry. 39 (51): 15775–82. doi:10.1021/bi001393h. PMID 11123902.
• Sang Lee J, Gyu Park S, Park H, et al. (2002). "Interaction network of human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and subunits of elongation factor 1 complex". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 291 (1): 158–64. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2002.6398. PMID 11829477.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Bouwmeester T, Bauch A, Ruffner H, et al. (2004). "A physical and functional map of the human TNF-alpha/NF-kappa B signal transduction pathway". Nat. Cell Biol. 6 (2): 97–105. doi:10.1038/ncb1086. PMID 14743216.
• Beausoleil SA, Jedrychowski M, Schwartz D, et al. (2004). "Large-scale characterization of HeLa cell nuclear phosphoproteins". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (33): 12130–5. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10112130B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404720101. PMC 514446. PMID 15302935.
• Sampath P, Mazumder B, Seshadri V, et al. (2004). "Noncanonical function of glutamyl-prolyl-tRNA synthetase: gene-specific silencing of translation". Cell. 119 (2): 195–208. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2004.09.030. PMID 15479637.
• Kato T, Daigo Y, Hayama S, et al. (2005). "A novel human tRNA-dihydrouridine synthase involved in pulmonary carcinogenesis". Cancer Res. 65 (13): 5638–46. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-0600. PMID 15994936.
• Beausoleil SA, Villén J, Gerber SA, et al. (2006). "A probability-based approach for high-throughput protein phosphorylation analysis and site localization". Nat. Biotechnol. 24 (10): 1285–92. doi:10.1038/nbt1240. PMID 16964243.
• Ewing RM, Chu P, Elisma F, et al. (2007). "Large-scale mapping of human protein-protein interactions by mass spectrometry". Mol. Syst. Biol. 3 (1): 89. doi:10.1038/msb4100134. PMC 1847948. PMID 17353931.