tRNAHis maturation: An essential yeast protein catalyzes addition of a guanine nucleotide to the 5′ end of tRNAHis

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2889-2901

  Gu, Weifeng ^a   Jackman, Jane E ^a   Lohan, Amanda J ^b   Gray, Michael W ^b   Phizicky, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guanylyltransferase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; tRNA processing; YGR024c

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; HISTIDINE TRANSFER RNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA; THG1P PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPEN READING FRAME YGR024C; PHOSPHODIESTER BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0348014687     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1148603     Document Type: Article

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