A sparsomycin-resistant mutant of Halobacterium salinarium lacks a modification at nucleotide U2603 in the peptidyl transferase centre of 23 S rRNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-238

  Lázaro, Ester ^a   Rodriguez Fonseca, Cristina ^b   Porse, Bo ^b   Ureña, Dionisio ^a   Garrett, Roger A ^b   Ballesta, Juan P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

23 S rRNA; Drug resistant mutant; Peptidyl transferase; Post transcriptional modification; Sparsomycin

Indexed keywords

ANISOMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PUROMYCIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S; SPARSOMYCIN; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HALOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM;

EID: 0030590237     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0455     Document Type: Article

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