Expression and characterization of the human mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1490, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 245-258

  Bullard, James M ^a   Cai, Ying Chun ^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

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Human; Mitochondrion; Protein synthesis; tRNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GEL FILTRATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; KINETICS; LEUCINE-TRNA LIGASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033951476     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(99)00240-7     Document Type: Article

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