The identity determinants required for the discrimination between tRNA and tRNA(Asp) by glutamyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 354-360

  Sekine, Shun ichi ^c   Nureki, Osamu ^c   Tateno, Masaru ^b   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Glutamyl tRNA synthetase; Identity switch; TRNA identity; TRNA(Glu)

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ASPARTIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; CYTOSINE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; GUANINE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACYLATION; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, ASP; RNA, TRANSFER, GLU; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0006059311     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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