Effects of domain exchanges between Escherichia coli and mammalian mitochondrial EF-Tu on interactions with guanine nucleotides, aminoacyl-tRNA and ribosomes

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1446, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 102-114

  Bullard, James M ^a   Cai, Ying Chun ^a   Zhang, Yuelin ^a   Spremulli, Linda L ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeric protein; Elongation; Elongation factor Tu; Mitochondrion; Protein synthesis; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR TS; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033065926     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(99)00077-9     Document Type: Article

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