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. 2007 Feb 20;104(9):3141–3146. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611634104

Table 2.

Aminoacylation and in vivo binding of M. barkeri tRNAPyl variants by M. barkeri PylRS

tRNA Mutations KM, μM kcat, s−1 kcat/KM L Binding, %
tRNAPyl Wild type 0.23 ± 0.04 (4.0 ± 1.2) × 10−2 1.74 × 10−1 1 100
tRNAPyl G73A 0.48 ± 0.14 (1.5 ± 0.2) × 10−3 3.00 × 10−3 58.0 55
tRNAPyl C72U 0.10 ± 0.03 (1.6 ± 0.3) × 10−4 1.60 × 10−3 108.7 76
tRNAPyl C13:G22→A:U 0.16 ± 0.04 (1.9 ± 0.3) × 10−2 1.16 × 10−1 1.5 95
tRNAPyl A45G 0.51 ± 0.08 (3.2 ± 0.9) × 10−2 6.31 × 10−2 2.8 92
tRNAPyl G48U 0.39 ± 0.04 (9.2 ± 3.1) × 10−3 2.36 × 10−2 7.4 79
tRNAPyl G51:C63→U:A 0.97 ± 0.23 (8.2 ± 1.4) × 10−3 8.49 × 10−3 20.5 69
tRNAPyl U33G 0.12 ± 0.02 (1.2 ± 0.2) × 10−3 1.00 × 10−2 17.4 67
tRNAPyl A37C 0.20 ± 0.04 (1.3 ± 0.3) × 10−3 6.63 × 10−3 26.2 55
tRNAPyl Anticodon CUA→CAA 0.09 ± 0.02 (2.0 ± 0.4) × 10−2 2.19 × 10−1 0.8 82
tRNAPyl Anticodon CUA→AUA 0.67 ± 0.10 (1.7 ± 0.4) × 10−2 2.57 × 10−2 6.8 94
tRNAPyl Anticodon CUA→CUU 0.17 ± 0.02 (3.2 ± 0.6) × 10−2 1.88 × 10−1 0.9 86
tRNASer Wild type ND ND ND ND ND
tRNASer/Pyl Chimera 1 0.26 ± 0.04 (2.1 ± 0.4) × 10−2 8.15 × 10−3 2.13 78.3
tRNASer/Pyl Chimera 2 0.29 ± 0.05 (2.3 ± 0.5) × 10−2 7.93 × 10−3 2.19 82.6

In vivo binding of tRNAPyl to PylRS was determined by the yeast three-hybrid method as described in Materials and Methods. L represents loss of aminoacylation efficiency and is calculated as (kcat/KM mutant)/(kcat/KM wild type). ND, the activity could not be detected.