Retracing the evolution of amino acid specificity in glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase

FEBS Letters

Volumn 434, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 149-154

  Hong, Kwang Won ^a   Ibba, Michael ^a   Söll, Dieter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Evolution; Glutamic acid; Glutamine; Glutaminyl tRNA synthetase; tRNA

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031692909     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(98)00968-5     Document Type: Article

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