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Gene information for WARS (Homo sapiens)
(Information is obtained from NCBI Gene database)
Entrez gene ID7453
Official gene symbolWARS
Full nametryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase
Aliases,GAMMA-2,IFI53,IFP53,
Gene summaryAminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyze the aminoacylation of tRNA by their cognate amino acid. Because of their central role in linking amino acids with nucleotide triplets contained in tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are thought to be among the first proteins that appeared in evolution. Two forms of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase exist, a cytoplasmic form, named WARS, and a mitochondrial form, named WARS2. Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (WARS) catalyzes the aminoacylation of tRNA(trp) with tryptophan and is induced by interferon. Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase belongs to the class I tRNA synthetase family. Four transcript variants encoding two different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq]
LocationChromosome: 14   Locus: 14q32.31
Gene position100842680 - 100800125  Map Viewer
Gene orientationminus
Gene size42556 bp
Gene sequence
OMIM ID191050