The modular structure of Escherichia coli threonyl-tRNA synthetase as both an enzyme and a regulator of gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 961-974

  Caillet, Joël ^a   Nogueira, Teresa ^a,d   Masquida, Benoît ^b   Winter, Flore ^b   Graffe, Monique ^a   Dock Brégeon, Anne Catherine ^c   Torres Larios, Alfredo ^c   Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ^c,e   Westhof, Eric ^b   Ehresmann, Bernard ^b   Ehresmann, Chantal ^b   Romby, Pascale ^b   Springer, Mathias ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^e CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037323785     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03364.x     Document Type: Article

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