The archaeal eIF2 homologue: Functional properties of an ancient translation initiation factor

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1804-1812

  Pedullà, Nadia ^a   Palermo, Rocco ^a   Hasenöhrl, David ^b   Bläsi, Udo ^b   Cammarano, Piero ^a   Londei, Paola ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INITIATION FACTOR 2; TRANSFER RNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RIBOSOME;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 15944425052     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki321     Document Type: Article

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