The A1 · U72 base pair conserved in eukaryotic initiator tRNAs is important specifically for binding to the eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF2

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4248-4256

  Farruggio, Dawn ^a   Chaudhuri, Jayanta ^b   Maitra, Umadas ^b   Rajbhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; PUROMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 2; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; PRIMER DNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; AMINOACYLATION; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; METHIONINE-TRNA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

EID: 0029666095     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.16.8.4248     Document Type: Article

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