Ffh and FtsY in a Mycoplasma mycoides signal-recognition particle pathway: SRP RNA and M domain of Ffh are not required for stimulation of GTPase activity in vitro

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 523-534

  Macao, Bertil ^a   Luirink, Joen ^b   Samuelsson, Tore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCKING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RNA; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 0030947227     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3551729.x     Document Type: Article

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