Two libraries of cloned E. coli DNA were screened for plasmids which complemented thermosensitive phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase mutants. Four plasmids were isolated which complemented pheS and pheT thermosensitive mutations but which do not carry pheS or pheT, the structural genes for phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase. All these plasmids increased the intracellular tRNAPhe concentration. Three plasmids were shown to carry the structural gene for tRNAPhe which we call pheU. By restriction enzyme analysis, DNA blotting and DNA:tRNA hybridization, pheU was localised to a 280 bp fragment within a 5.6 kb PstI restriction fragment of E.coli DNA.
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