The structure of threonyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNAThr complex enlightens its repressor activity and reveals an essential zinc ion in the active site

Cell

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 371-381

  Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ^a   Dock Bregeon, Anne Catherine ^a   Romby, Pascale ^b   Caillet, Joel ^c   Springer, Mathias ^c   Rees, Bernard ^a   Ehresmann, Chantal ^b   Ehresmann, Bernard ^b   Moras, Dino ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETASE; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; ZINC ION;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 0033617335     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80746-1     Document Type: Article

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