Structural basis for shape-selective recognition and aminoacylation of a D-armless human mitochondrial tRNA

Mitochondrial tRNAs are indispensable and yet underwent an extreme mutational erosion. The authors report the structures of a mitochondrial aaRS-tRNA complex and show how the most degenerated of all human mtRNAs is recognized by its cognate synthetase to maintain mitochondrial gene expression.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bernhard Kuhle, Marscha Hirschi, Lili K. Doerfel, Gabriel C. Lander, Paul Schimmel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32544-1