Mammalian prothymosin α links to tRNA in Escherichia coli cells

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1173-1181

  Vartapetian, Andrey ^a   Lukashev, Dmitriy ^a   Lyakhov, Ilya ^a   Belyaeva, Anastasiya ^a   Chichkova, Nina ^a   Bogdanov, Alexey ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Nuclear localization signal; Prothymosin alpha; Transfer RNA

Indexed keywords

PROTHYMOSIN ALPHA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COVALENT BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; RNA, TRANSFER, SER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; THYMOSIN; TRYPSIN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030769090     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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