Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases and their connections to disease

SG Park, P Schimmel, S Kim - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2008 - pnas.org
Aminoacylation of transfer RNAs establishes the rules of the genetic code. The reactions
are catalyzed by an ancient group of 20 enzymes (one for each amino acid) known as …

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complexes: beyond translation

SW Lee, BH Cho, SG Park, S Kim - Journal of cell science, 2004 - journals.biologists.com
Although aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are housekeeping enzymes essential for protein
synthesis, they can play non-catalytic roles in diverse biological processes. Some ARSs …

Functional expansion of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and their interacting factors: new perspectives on housekeepers

SG Park, KL Ewalt, S Kim - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2005 - cell.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are essential enzymes that join amino acids to tRNAs,
thereby linking the genetic code to specific amino acids. Once considered a class of ‘…

Human lysyl-tRNA synthetase is secreted to trigger proinflammatory response

SG Park, HJ Kim, YH Min, EC Choi, YK Shin… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - pnas.org
Although aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are essential for protein synthesis, they also
function as regulators and signaling molecules in diverse biological processes. Here, we …

Metabolic Tumor Volume of [18F]-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Predicts Short-Term Outcome to Radiotherapy With or …

MK Chung, HS Jeong, SG Park, JY Jang… - Clinical cancer …, 2009 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate whether metabolic tumor volume (MTV) measured
from [ 18 F]-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-…

Dose-dependent biphasic activity of tRNA synthetase-associating factor, p43, in angiogenesis

SG Park, YS Kang, YH Ahn, SH Lee, KR Kim… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - jbc.org
Mammalian aminoacyl tRNA synthetases form a macromolecular protein complex with three
non-enzymatic cofactors. Among these factors, p43 is also secreted to work as a cytokine on …

A cofactor of tRNA synthetase, p43, is secreted to up-regulate proinflammatory genes

YG Ko, H Park, T Kim, JW Lee, SG Park, W Seol… - Journal of Biological …, 2001 - jbc.org
An auxiliary factor of mammalian multi-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, p43, is thought to be a
precursor of endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP II) that triggers …

Efficient high-energy pulse-train generation using a 2^ n-pulse michelson interferometer

CW Siders, JLW Siders, AJ Taylor, SG Park… - Applied …, 1998 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a novel, Michelson-based, ultrafast multiplexer with a throughput approaching
100% for a polarization-multiplexed train and 50% for a linearly polarized train, which is …

Nucleolar localization of human Methionyl–Trna Synthetase and its role in ribosomal RNA synthesis

YG Ko, YS Kang, EK Kim, SG Park, S Kim - The Journal of cell biology, 2000 - rupress.org
Human aminoacyl–tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are normally located in cytoplasm and are
involved in protein synthesis. In the present work, we found that human methionyl–tRNA …

A short peptide insertion crucial for angiostatic activity of human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase

Y Kise, SW Lee, SG Park, S Fukai, T Sengoku… - Nature structural & …, 2004 - nature.com
Human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS) is secreted into the extracellular region of
vascular endothelial cells. The splice variant form (mini TrpRS) functions in vascular endothelial …