Threonine--tRNA ligase 1, cytoplasmic (TARS)

The protein contains 723 amino acids for an estimated molecular weight of 83435 Da.

 

Catalyzes the attachment of threonine to tRNA(Thr) in a two-step reaction: threonine is first activated by ATP to form Thr-AMP and then transferred to the acceptor end of tRNA(Thr) (PubMed:25824639, PubMed:31374204). Also edits incorrectly charged tRNA(Thr) via its editing domain, at the post-transfer stage (By similarity). (updated: April 22, 2020)

Protein identification was indicated in the following studies:

  1. Goodman and co-workers. (2013) The proteomics and interactomics of human erythrocytes. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 238(5), 509-518.
  2. Lange and co-workers. (2014) Annotating N termini for the human proteome project: N termini and Nα-acetylation status differentiate stable cleaved protein species from degradation remnants in the human erythrocyte proteome. J Proteome Res. 13(4), 2028-2044.
  3. Hegedűs and co-workers. (2015) Inconsistencies in the red blood cell membrane proteome analysis: generation of a database for research and diagnostic applications. Database (Oxford) 1-8.
  4. Wilson and co-workers. (2016) Comparison of the Proteome of Adult and Cord Erythroid Cells, and Changes in the Proteome Following Reticulocyte Maturation. Mol Cell Proteomics. 15(6), 1938-1946.
  5. Bryk and co-workers. (2017) Quantitative Analysis of Human Red Blood Cell Proteome. J Proteome Res. 16(8), 2752-2761.
  6. D'Alessandro and co-workers. (2017) Red blood cell proteomics update: is there more to discover? Blood Transfus. 15(2), 182-187.
  7. Chu and co-workers. (2018) Quantitative mass spectrometry of human reticulocytes reveal proteome-wide modifications during maturation. Br J Haematol. 180(1), 118-133.

Methods

The following articles were analysed to gather the proteome content of erythrocytes.

The gene or protein list provided in the studies were processed using the ID mapping API of Uniprot in September 2018. The number of proteins identified and mapped without ambiguity in these studies is indicated below.
Only Swiss-Prot entries (reviewed) were considered for protein evidence assignation.

PublicationIdentification 1Uniprot mapping 2Not mapped /
Obsolete
TrEMBLSwiss-Prot
Goodman (2013)2289 (gene list)227853205992269
Lange (2014)123412347281224
Hegedus (2015)2638262202352387
Wilson (2016)165815281702911068
d'Alessandro (2017)18261817201815
Bryk (2017)20902060101081942
Chu (2018)18531804553621387

1 as available in the article and/or in supplementary material
2 uniprot mapping returns all protein isoforms as one entry

The compilation of older studies can be retrieved from the Red Blood Cell Collection database.

The data and differentiation stages presented below come from the proteomic study and analysis performed by our partners of the GReX consortium, more details are available in their published work.

No sequence conservation computed yet.

Interpro domains
Total structural coverage: 89%
Model score: 39

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VariantDescription
dbSNP:rs34334786
TTD7; loss of protein stability; loss of threonine-tRNA ligase activity
TTD7

The reference OMIM entry for this protein is 187790

Threonyl-trna synthetase; tars
Thrrs

CLONING

Lo et al. (2014) reported the discovery of a large number of natural catalytic nulls for each human aminoacyl tRNA synthetase. Splicing events retain noncatalytic domains while ablating the catalytic domain to create catalytic nulls with diverse functions. Each synthetase is converted into several new signaling proteins with biologic activities 'orthogonal' to that of the catalytic parent. The recombinant aminoacyl tRNA synthetase variants had specific biologic activities across a spectrum of cell-based assays: about 46% across all species affect transcriptional regulation, 22% cell differentiation, 10% immunomodulation, 10% cytoprotection, and 4% each for proliferation, adipogenesis/cholesterol transport, and inflammatory response. Lo et al. (2014) identified in-frame splice variants of cytoplasmic aminoacyl tRNA synthetases. They identified 1 catalytic-null and 1 catalytic domain-retained splice variants for ThrRS.

MAPPING

Arfin et al. (1985) assigned the gene for threonyl-tRNA synthetase to chromosome 5 by study of somatic cell hybrids. Of the 7 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase genes mapped to that time, 4 were known to be on chromosome 5, which represents only about 7% of the total human genome. By study of human-hamster cell hybrids, Arfin et al. (1985) determined that TARS is very closely linked to LARS (151350); the latter is located at 5pter-q11, according to Arfin et al. (1985). Gerken et al. (1986) mapped the TARS gene to 5p13-cen by an analysis of isoelectric focusing patterns of this enzyme from human x Chinese hamster interspecific somatic cell hybrids. The gene is close to the gene for LARS which, they stated, maps to 5cen-q11. ... More on the omim web site

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April 25, 2020: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Entry updated from uniprot information.

Oct. 27, 2019: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Entry updated from uniprot information.

Nov. 16, 2018: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Entry updated from uniprot information.

Feb. 2, 2018: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Uniprot description updated

Dec. 19, 2017: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: Uniprot description updated

June 20, 2017: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: comparative model was added.

March 16, 2016: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: OMIM entry 187790 was added.

Jan. 25, 2016: Protein entry updated
Automatic update: model status changed