Rescuing an essential enzyme-RNA complex with a non-essential appended domain

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2968-2974

  Whelihan, E Fayelle ^a   Schimmel, Paul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacylation; E. coli yeast hybrid protein; RNA interactions; tRNA recognition

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUTAMINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER, GLN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0000504076     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.10.2968     Document Type: Article

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