Anticodon sequence mutants of Escherichia coli initiator tRNA: Effects of overproduction of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase, and initiation factor 2 on activity in initiation

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 4787-4799

  Mayer, Christine ^a   Köhrer, Caroline ^a   Kenny, Eimear ^a   Prusko, Carsten ^a   RajBhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING AFFINITIES;

AMINO ACIDS; PROTEINS; RNA; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; INITIATION FACTOR 2; METHIONINE; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA FORMYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BASE MISPAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANTICODON; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROXYMETHYL AND FORMYL TRANSFERASES; KINETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, MET;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037657887     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi034011r     Document Type: Article

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