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In archaea and eukaryotes aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) associate in multi-synthetase complexes (MSCs), however the role of such MSCs in translation is unknown. MSC function was investigated in vivo in the archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis, wherein six aaRSs were affinity co-purified together with several other factors involved in protein synthesis, suggesting that MSCs may interact directly with translating ribosomes. In support of this hypothesis, the aminoacyltRNA synthetase (aaRS) activities of the MSC were enriched in isolated T. kodakarensis polysome fractions. These data indicate that components of the archaeal protein synthesis machinery associate into macromolecular assemblies in vivo and provide the potential to increase translation efficiency by limiting substrate diffusion away from the ribosome, thus facilitating rapid recycling of tRNAs.

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Raina, M., Elgamal, S., Santangelo, T. and Ibba, M. (2012) Association of a multi-synthetase complex with translating ribosomes in the archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis. FEBS Letts. 586, 2232-2238. https://doi.org10.1016/j.febslet.2012.05.039

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So far you have learned how to construct a phylogenetic tree using the structural alignment of AQPs.The sequence alignment can also be used to build a phylogenetic tree, especially when protein structures are notavailable.To make use of both the structural and sequence information,Multiseq now allows you to merge the two types of alignments and construct a completeevolutionary profile (EP) for the proteins being studied. In this section,you will learn how to obtain the EP for AQPs. For more information on using Multiseqprogram to perform evolutionary analysis, please refer to the Evolution of Biomolecular Structure tutorial.

Configure BLAST for Multiseq

For the following section you willneed to install BLAST on your computer. BLAST is a software that searchesthrough sequence databases and locate those sequences that are similar to aquery sequence. It is available online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ (click on Help tab, find and click theDownload link. At the bottom of the section titled 'Legacy executables,' clickon the link ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/release/LATEST/,and download BLAST as a guest). Here we will install a local copy of BLAST forMultiseq

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Unix/Linux:/usr/local/blast;

Mac OS X:/Applications/Blast;

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tar zxvf filename. On Mac OS X or Windows, double-click the file.
Figure:Choose the directory for BLAST. The final directory in the BLAST Installation Directory should now be titled blast-2.2.26 as the BLAST version has changed.
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Open a new VMD and load the pdb files 1fqy, 1rc2, and 2f2b one by one.
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In the Multiseq program window, keep the protein structures under VMD Protein Structures and deleteall structures under VMD Nucleic Structures.
If you loaded your structures by giving the pdb code to VMD (not with the files we prepared for you), you may have more than one structure for each of the pdb code you entered, i.e., besides 1rc2A, you may also have 1rc2B. This indicates that in the original pdb file, there are two different structures for the protein. The difference between them is usually very small, and does not affectthe alignment we are going to perform. Therefore, simply delete 1rc2B and keep 1rc2A.

Load Sequences for AQPs in all three domains of life

Now that you have the structures of AQPs loaded, we will use BLAST to find sequences of AQPs in all three domains of life. Each of the three structures will be used as a query sequence by BLAST, and sequences in the swiss-prot database will be comparedwith them, one at a time. Those sequences similar to our query sequence will be picked by BLAST and loaded in Multiseq.
From BLAST Search under Data Source and select Marked Sequences (Fig. 34).
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Choose for E Score and 1 for Iterations and then click OK.
BLAST is now searching the database with 1fqy as a query sequence. This should take a minute or two.A new window named BLAST Search Results will open once the search has finished. Note that the swiss-prot database provided here only contains sequence data for proteins in this session. You cannot rely on it for other proteins that you want to investigate. Moreover, the database is not an updated one, so visit the BLAST online databases if you want the latest results.As you may have noticed, 100 sequences have been found using the query sequence 1fqy. We will only keep those sequences fromthe Eukaryota domain, since our query sequence is from Eukaryota. Later we will find sequences in Bacteria and Archaea using the query sequences1rc2 and 2f2b, respectively. This should make our search more accurate.
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Click Accept. The sequences will be loaded in Multiseq.
Figure:Search result of BLAST.

Align Sequences Using a Structural Profile

In order to analyze the three structures and the 118 sequences of AQPs together, we need to first align them. What we will do is to first align the structures using the STAMP structural alignment tool mentioned in section 2, andthen we will use the structural alignment to guide the sequence alignments.
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Click Tools Stamp Structural Alignment and choose to align Marked Structures and then click OK.
Archaea Terata Mac Os CatalinaAlign marked sequences to group, selectVMD Protein Structures, and then click OK. This should taketwo or three minutes.Now you have a complete structural based alignment of the AQPs in all three domains. Try coloring it by sequence identity byclicking View Coloring Sequence Identity (Fig.37).
Figure:ClustalW alignment result using the structural profile

Construct an Evolutionary Profile for AQPs

Although we have obtained the structures and sequences for AQPs in all three domains and aligned them together, what we have now is notan evolutionary profile yet. We still need to get rid of the redundancy in these sequences caused by the biased databases.Multiseq provides a Sequence QR tool which can be used to select a minimum non-redundant set from the sequences, usinga threshold specified by the user.

Evolutionary profile provides an ``unbiased' view for the evolutionary relationship of the proteins in investigation. Using EP, scientists have successfullyidentified a new subfamily for the protein cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase. For more details on constructing EP and performing evolutionary analysis, please referto the Evolution of Biomolecular Structure tutorial.


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