The long-range electrostatic interactions control tRNA-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complex formation

Protein Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1247-1251

  Tworowski, Dmitry ^a   Safro, Mark ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Brownian motion; Electrostatic interactions; Electrostatic potential; Encounter complex; tRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BINDING SITES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0038583686     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0301203     Document Type: Article

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