Effects of Mutagenesis of Gln97 in the Switch II Region of Escherichia coli Elongation Factor Tu on Its Interaction with Guanine Nucleotides, Elongation Factor Ts, and Aminoacyl-tRNA

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 46, 2003, Pages 13587-13595

  Navratil, Tomas ^a   Spremulli, Linda L ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIA; RIBOSOMES;

CHEMICAL BONDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERIZATION; RNA;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TS; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GLUTAMINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHENYLALANINE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RIBOSOME; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMINE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHENYLALANINE; POLY U; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0344391935     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi034855a     Document Type: Article

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