The yeast protein Arc1p binds to tRNA and functions as a cofactor for the methionyl- and glutamyl-tRNA synthetases

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 5437-5448

  Simos, George ^a   Segref, Alexandra ^a   Fasiolo, Franco ^b   Hellmuth, Klaus ^a   Shevchenko, Andrei ^c   Mann, Mattias ^c   Hurt, Eduard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; ARC1; Los1p; Nuclear pore complex; tRNA aminoacylation

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SYNTHESIS; YEAST;

FUNGI;

EID: 0029790980     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00927.x     Document Type: Article

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