Crystal structure of tRNA-guanine transglycosylase: RNA modification by base exchange

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2850-2857

  Romier, Christophe ^a   Reuter, Klaus ^b   Suck, Dietrich ^a   Ficner, Ralf ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

( )8 barrel; 7 aminomethyl 7 deazaguanine; Anticodon; Zinc

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0029991713     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00646.x     Document Type: Article

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