Identification and characterization of tRNA (Gm18) methyltransferase from Thermus thermophilus HB8: Domain structure and conserved amino acid sequence motifs

Genes to Cells

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 259-272

  Hori, Hiroyuki ^a,h   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^b   Sugawara, Kazumasa ^b   Inoue, Yorinao ^c   Shibata, Takehiko ^d   Kuramitsu, Seiki ^e,f   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^b,c,e   Oshima, Tairo ^g   Watanabe, Kimitsuna ^b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^h EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYL GROUP; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HYDROLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0036206498     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2002.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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