Major identity element of glutamine tRNAs from Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli in the reaction with B. subtilis glutamyl-tRNA synthetase

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 459-465

  Kim, Sung Il ^a   Söll, Dieter ^b  

^a Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamine tRNA; Glutamyl tRNA Synthetase; Identity Element; Modified Base

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; GLUTAMINE; GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA; GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMINYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-TRNA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER, GLN; RNA, TRANSFER, GLU; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032584812     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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