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Structural Basis for the Recognition of Isoleucyl-Adenylate and an Antibiotic, Mupirocin, by Isoleucyl-tRNA Synthetase
1 Dec 2001
Abstract excerpt
An analogue of isoleucyl-adenylate (Ile-AMS) potently inhibits the isoleucyl-tRNA synthetases (IleRSs) from the three primary kingdoms, whereas the antibiotic mupirocin inhibits only the eubacterial and archaeal IleRSs, but not the eukaryotic enzymes, and therefore is clinically used against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. We determined the crystal structures of the IleRS from the thermophilic...
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