Enacyloxin IIa, an inhibitor of protein biosynthesis that acts on elongation factor Tu and the ribosome

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2604-2611

  Cetin, Rengül ^a   Rab, Ivo M K ^a   Anborgh, Pieter H ^a,b   Cool, Robbert H ^a,c   Watanabe, Toshihiko ^d   Sugiyama, Takeyoshi ^d   Izaki, Kazuo ^d   Parmeggiani, Andrea ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Elongation factor Tu; GTPases; Protein biosynthesis; Ribosomes

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; ENACYLOXIN 2A; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING;

EID: 15844393667     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00618.x     Document Type: Article

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