Aminoacylation of an unusual tRNACys from an extreme halophile

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 794-801

  Evilia, Caryn ^a   Ming, Xiaotian ^a   Dassarma, Shiladitya ^b   Hou, Ya Ming ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine; Halobacterium species NRC 1; Protein RNA interactions; Sugar phosphate backbone; Tertiary core

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; CYSTEINE TRANSFER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CELL LEVEL; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RECONSTITUTION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; INTERNALIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SALT TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOBACTERIUM; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, CYS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON;

EID: 0038382878     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5320603     Document Type: Article

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