The essential role of the invariant GGQ motif in the function and stability in vivo of bacterial release factors RF1 and RF2

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 267-275

  Mora, Liliana ^a   Heurgué Hamard, Valérie ^a   Champ, Stéphanie ^a   Ehrenberg, Måns ^b   Kisselev, Lev L ^c   Buckingham, Richard H ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RELEASE FACTOR RF1; BACTERIAL RELEASE FACTOR RF2; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; NITROGEN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037223622     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03301.x     Document Type: Article

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