The Escherichia coli trmE (mnmE) gene, involved in tRNA modification, codes for an evolutionarily conserved GTPase with unusual biochemical properties

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 7063-7076

  Cabedo, Hugo ^a   Macián, Fernando ^b   Villarroya, Magda ^a   Escudero, Juan C ^a   Martínez Vicente, Marta ^a   Knecht, Erwin ^a   Armengod, M Eugenia ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

GTPase; Synthetic lethality; Translation; tRNA modification

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

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

EID: 0033573089     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.24.7063     Document Type: Article

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