Temperature and other factors affecting synthesis of bis(5'-adenosyl) tetraphosphate (Ap4A) and bis(5'-adenosyl)triphosphate (Ap3A) catalyzed by phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetases (PheRSs) from Escherichia coli MRE-600 and Thermus thermophilus HB8 have been investigated. Those two synthetases exhibited different temperature-dependent rates of the Ap4A and Ap3A synthesis. However, with respect to the effects of such effectors of the Ap4A synthesis as Zn2+, Mg2+, tRNA and Ap4A phosphonate analogues, as well as some inhibitors of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, those two enzymes were apparently undistinguishable.
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