tRNA (cytidine34-2'-O)-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.207, yibK (gene), methyltransferase yibK, TrmL, tRNA methyltransferase L, tRNA (cytidine34/5-carboxymethylaminomethyluridine34-2'-O)-methyltransferase) is an enzyme with systematic name S-adenosyl-L-methionine:tRNA (cytidine34/5-carboxymethylaminomethyluridine34-2'-O)-methyltransferase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
(1) S-adenosyl-L-methionine + cytidine34 in tRNA ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + 2'-O-methylcytidine34 in tRNA (2) S-adenosyl-L-methionine + 5-carboxymethylaminomethyluridine34 in tRNALeu ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + 5-carboxymethylaminomethyl-2'-O-methyluridine34 in tRNALeuThe enzyme from Escherichia coli catalyses the 2'-O-methylation of cytidine or 5-carboxymethylaminomethyluridine at the wobble position at nucleotide 34 in tRNALeuCmAA and tRNALeucmnm5UmAA.
External links
- TRNA+(cytidine34-2'-O)-methyltransferase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
References
Benítez-Páez A, Villarroya M, Douthwaite S, Gabaldón T, Armengod ME (November 2010). "YibK is the 2'-O-methyltransferase TrmL that modifies the wobble nucleotide in Escherichia coli tRNA(Leu) isoacceptors". RNA. 16 (11): 2131–43. doi:10.1261/rna.2245910. PMC 2957053. PMID 20855540. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957053 ↩