A primordial RNA modification enzyme: The case of tRNA (m1A) methyltransferase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 465-476

  Roovers, Martine ^a   Wouters, Johan ^b   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^c   Tricot, Catherine ^b   Stalon, Victor ^a,b   Grosjean, Henri ^d   Droogmans, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Jean Marie Wiame Inst M   (Belgium)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; DISULFIDE; INOSINE; POLYPEPTIDE; RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENETICS; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DISULFIDES; ENZYME STABILITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEAT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 1342307286     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh191     Document Type: Article

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