Crystal structure of acceptor stem of tRNA(Ala) from Escherichia coli shows unique G·U wobble base pair at 1.16 Å resolution

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 670-677

  Mueller, Uwe ^a   Schübel, Harald ^b   Sprinzl, Mathias ^b   Heinemann, Udo ^a,c  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl synthetase specificity; Ion binding to RNA; Non Watson Crick base pair; Protein RNA recognition; RNA hydration; Transfer RNA; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ALANINE TRANSFER RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; STRONTIUM;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING;

BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; STRONTIUM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0344142531     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299982304     Document Type: Article

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