Domain structure, GTP-hydrolyzing activity and 7S RNA binding of Acidianus ambivalens Ffh-homologous protein suggest an SRP-like complex in archaea

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 441-448

  Moll, Ralf ^a   Schmidtke, Silke ^b   Schäfer, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Archaea; Ffh; RNA binding protein; Signal recognition like particle; Signal sequence

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; SULFOLOBACEAE;

ACIDIANUS AMBIVALENS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 0033556288     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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