Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase
ID: aminoacyl-trna-synthetase
An enzyme attaching an appropriate amino acid to a cognate transfer RNA. Reduced charging can slow decoding even if ribosome initiation remains active.
Binds an amino acid to the correct corresponding tRNA sequence. Wikipedia mentions that humans have 20 of them, one for each proteinogenic amino acid.
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