Presence and location of modified nucleotides in Escherichia coli tmRNA: Structural mimicry with tRNA acceptor branches

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3188-3196

  Felden, Brice ^a   Hanawa, Kyoko ^b   Atkins, John F ^c   Himeno, Hyouta ^b   Muto, Akira ^b   Gesteland, Raymond F ^a,c   McCloskey, James A ^c,d   Crain, Pamela F ^d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

5 methyluridine; Electrospray mass spectrometry; Modified nucleotides; Pseudouridine; tmRNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; TRANSFER RNA; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PSEUDOURIDINE; RIBONUCLEASE T1; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; URIDINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032101712     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.11.3188     Document Type: Article

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