Identifying the methyltransferases for m5U747 and m5U1939 in 23S rRNA using MALDI mass spectrometry

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4738-4746

  Madsen, Christian Toft ^a   Mengel Jørgensen, Jonas ^a   Kirpekar, Finn ^a   Douthwaite, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA 23S; THYMIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA METHYLATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES; URIDINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345306616     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg657     Document Type: Article

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