NARS (gene)

Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase
Identifiers
Symbols	NARS; ASNRS; NARS1
External IDs	OMIM: 108410 MGI: 1917473 HomoloGene: 68404 GeneCards: NARS Gene
EC number	6.1.1.22
Gene Ontology Molecular function • nucleotide binding • nucleic acid binding • asparagine-tRNA ligase activity • protein binding • ATP binding • ligase activity Cellular component • soluble fraction • cytoplasm • mitochondrion • cytosol Biological process • tRNA aminoacylation for protein translation • asparaginyl-tRNA aminoacylation • gene expression Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	4677	70223
Ensembl	ENSG00000134440	ENSMUSG00000024587
UniProt	O43776	Q3T9A7
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_004539	NM_027350
RefSeq (protein)	NP_004530	NP_081626
Location (UCSC)	Chr 18: 55.27 – 55.29 Mb	Chr 18: 64.66 – 64.68 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NARS gene.

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are a class of enzymes that charge tRNAs with their cognate amino acids. Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase is localized to the cytoplasm and belongs to the class II family of tRNA synthetases. The N-terminal domain represents the signature sequence for the eukaryotic asparaginyl-tRNA synthetases.

Further reading

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• Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, et al. (1997). "Large-scale concatenation cDNA sequencing.". Genome Res. 7 (4): 353–8. doi:10.1101/gr.7.4.353. PMC 139146. PMID 9110174. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139146. 
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library.". Gene 200 (1-2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149. 
• Shiba K, Motegi H, Yoshida M, Noda T (1999). "Human asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase: molecular cloning and the inference of the evolutionary history of Asx-tRNA synthetase family.". Nucleic Acids Res. 26 (22): 5045–51. doi:10.1093/nar/26.22.5045. PMC 147956. PMID 9801298. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=147956. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241. 
• Lehner B, Sanderson CM (2004). "A protein interaction framework for human mRNA degradation.". Genome Res. 14 (7): 1315–23. doi:10.1101/gr.2122004. PMC 442147. PMID 15231747. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=442147. 
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=528928. 
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network.". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514. 
• Lim J, Hao T, Shaw C, et al. (2006). "A protein-protein interaction network for human inherited ataxias and disorders of Purkinje cell degeneration.". Cell 125 (4): 801–14. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.03.032. PMID 16713569.