Engineering an Mg2+ site to replace a structurally conserved arginine in the catalytic center of histidyl-tRNA synthetase by computer experiments.

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Histidyl-tRNA synthetase (HisRS) differs from other class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) in that it harbors an arginine at a position where the others bind a catalytic Mg2+ ion. In computer experiments, four mutants of HisRS from Escherichia coli were engineered by removing the arginine and introducing a Mg2+ ion and residues from seryl-tRNA synthetase (SerRS) that are involved in Mg2+ binding. The mutants...

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