The enzyme, detected in fungal species that belong to the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota phyla and characterized from Aspergillus fumigatus, is bifunctional. The AspRS domain catalyses the transfer of L-aspartate to tRNAAsp (EC 6.1.1.12), while the second domain carries out the transfer of L-aspartate to the 3beta-hydroxyl of ergosterol.
Yakobov N, Fischer F, Mahmoudi N, Saga Y, Grube CD, Roy H, Senger B, Grob G, Tatematsu S, Yokokawa D, Mouyna I, Latge JP, Nakajima H, Kushiro T, Becker HD