Glycine-tRNA ligase

In enzymology, a glycine-tRNA ligase (EC number|6.1.1.14) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

:ATP + glycine + tRNAGly $ightleftharpoons$ AMP + diphosphate + glycyl-tRNAGly

The 3 substrates of this enzyme are ATP, glycine, and tRNA(Gly), whereas its 3 products are AMP, diphosphate, and glycyl-tRNA(Gly).

This enzyme belongs to the family of ligases, specifically those forming carbon-oxygen bonds in aminoacyl-tRNA and related compounds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is glycine:tRNAGly ligase (AMP-forming). Other names in common use include glycyl-tRNA synthetase, glycyl-transfer ribonucleate synthetase, glycyl-transfer RNA synthetase, glycyl-transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase, and glycyl translase. This enzyme participates in glycine, serine and threonine metabolism and aminoacyl-trna biosynthesis.

tructural studies

As of late 2007, 8 structures have been solved for this class of enzymes, with PDB accession codes PDB link|1ATI, PDB link|1B76, PDB link|1GGM, PDB link|1J5W, PDB link|2PME, PDB link|2PMF, PDB link|2Q5H, and PDB link|2Q5I.

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External links

::"The CAS registry number for this enzyme class is CAS registry|9037-62-1."

Gene Ontology (GO) codes