Chemical trapping and crystal structure of a catalytic tRNA guanine transglycosylase covalent intermediate

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 781-788

  Xie, Wei ^a   Liu, Xianjun ^a   Huang, Raven H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; QUEUINE TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA CONFORMATION; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; ZYMOMONAS;

PROKARYOTA; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0141596159     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb976     Document Type: Article

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