Effect of modified nucleotides on Escherichia coli tRNA(Glu) structure and on its aminoacylation by glutamyl-tRNA synthetase. Predominant and distinct roles of the mnm5 and s2 modifications of U34

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 266, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1128-1135

  Madore, Eric ^a   Florentz, Catherine ^b   Giegé, Richard ^b   Sekine, Shun Ichi ^c   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^c   Lapointe, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Modified; Probing; tRNA(Glu)

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; NUCLEOSIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMATE-TRNA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA, TRANSFER, GLU;

EID: 0033572751     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00965.x     Document Type: Article

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