The relationship of thermodynamic stability at a G·U recognition site to tRNA aminoacylation specificity

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1490-1494

  Strazewski, Peter ^a   Biala, Ewa ^a,c   Gabriel, Kay ^b   McClain, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Mid point temperatures; Protein synthesis; tRNA identity; Wobble base pair

Indexed keywords

ALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; RNA; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; THERMODYNAMICS; URACIL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032735291     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299991586     Document Type: Article

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