| Type: | Family | Name: | Methionine-tRNA synthetase, type 2 |
| Description: | Methionine-tRNA ligase () is an alpha 2 dimer. In some species (archaea, eubacteria and eukaryotes) a coding sequence, similar to the C-terminal end of MetRS, is present as an independent gene which is a tRNA binding domain as a dimer. In eubacteria, MetRS can also be split in two sub-classes corresponding to the presence of one or two CXXC domainsspecific to zinc binding. The crystal structures of a number of methionine-tRNA ligases are known [, , ].This entry represents type 2 methionine-tRNA synthetase from eubacteria. Subfamily 2a links one zinc ion whereas subfamily 2b does not []. | Short Name: | Met-tRNA_synth_2 |
