A new assay for tRNA aminoacylation kinetics

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1019-1023

  Wolfson, Alexey D ^a   Pleiss, Jeffrey A ^a   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid gel electrophoresis; Alanine; Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; tRNA, kinetics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALANINE-TRNA LIGASE; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031823330     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980700     Document Type: Article

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