The properties of a tRNA-specific adenosine deaminase from Drosophila melanogaster support an evolutionary link between pre-mRNA editing and tRNA modification

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 825-833

  Keegan, Liam P ^a   Gerber, André P ^b   Brindle, Jim ^a   Leemans, Ronny ^c   Gallo, Angela ^a   Keller, Walter ^b   O'Connell, Mary A ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INOSINE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA PASTORIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0033982815     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.3.825-833.2000     Document Type: Article

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