The zinc-binding site of a class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase is a SWIM domain that modulates amino acid binding via the tRNA acceptor arm

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 724-733

  Banerjee, Rajat ^a   Dubois, Daniel Y ^b   Gauthier, Joelle ^b   Lin, Sheng Xiang ^c   Roy, Siddhartha ^a   Lapointe, Jacques ^b  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glutamate binding site; Glutamyl tRNA synthetase; SWIM domain; tRNA acceptor arm; Zinc binding site

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMATE-TRNA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; ZINC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1342322693     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2003.03976.x     Document Type: Article

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