WARS2

Tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial
Identifiers
Symbols WARS2 ; TrpRS
External IDs OMIM: 604733 MGI: 1917810 HomoloGene: 5673 GeneCards: WARS2 Gene
EC number 6.1.1.2
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 10352 70560
Ensembl ENSG00000116874 ENSMUSG00000004233
UniProt Q9UGM6 Q9CYK1
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_015836 NM_027462
RefSeq (protein) NP_056651 NP_081738
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
119.03 – 119.14 Mb
Chr 3:
99.14 – 99.24 Mb
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Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the WARS2 gene.[1][2][3]

Function

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyze the aminoacylation of tRNA by their cognate amino acid. Because of their central role in linking amino acids with nucleotide triplets contained in tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are thought to be among the first proteins that appeared in evolution. Two forms of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase exist, a cytoplasmic form, named WARS, and a mitochondrial form, named WARS2. This gene encodes the mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase. Two alternative transcripts encoding different isoforms have been described.[3]

References

  1. Martinez-Dominguez MT, Justesen J, Kruse TA, Hansen LL (Mar 1999). "Assignment of the human mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (WARS2) to 1p13.3→p13.1 by radiation hybrid mapping". Cytogenet Cell Genet 83 (3–4): 249–50. doi:10.1159/000015196. PMID 10072595.
  2. Jorgensen R, Søgaard TM, Rossing AB, Martensen PM, Justesen J (Jul 2000). "Identification and characterization of human mitochondrial tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase". J Biol Chem 275 (22): 16820–6. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.22.16820. PMID 10828066.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: WARS2 tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial".

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