An example of non-conservation of oligomeric structure in prokaryotic aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Biochemical and structural properties of glycyl-tRNA synthetase from Thermus thermophilus

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 814-826

  Mazauric, Marie Hélène ^a   Reinbolt, Joseph ^a   Lorber, Bernard ^a   Ebel, Christine ^b   Keith, Gérard ^a   Giegé, Richard ^a   Kern, Daniel ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Aminoacylation; Glycyl tRNA synthetase; Thermophilic aminoacyl tRNA synthetases; Thermus thermophilus; tRNA identity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ALGA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SILKWORM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; YEAST;

ALGAE; ARRHENIUS; BOMBYX MORI; BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COXIELLA BURNETII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOMO SAPIENS; MORIDAE; PROKARYOTA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0029862428     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00814.x     Document Type: Article

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