CCA addition by tRNA nucleotidyltransferase: Polymerization without translocation?

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3197-3206

  Shi, Pei Yong ^a   Maizels, Nancy ^a   Weiner, Alan M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ATP(CTP):tRNA nucleotidyltransferase; Cross linking; Ribonucleoprotein

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHATES; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SULFOLOBUS SHIBATAE;

EID: 0032101196     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.11.3197     Document Type: Article

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