Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ribosome recycling factor (RRF) and a mutant lacking six amino acids from the C-terminal end reveals that the C-terminal residues are important for its occupancy on the ribosome

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3913-3920

  Rao, Arasada Rajeswara ^a   Varshney, Umesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Elongation factor G; Polysome binding; Termination complex; Thermus thermophilus; Tubercle bacilli

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR G; MUTANT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RECYCLING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING ASSAY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036953086     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-12-3913     Document Type: Article

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