Functional reconstitution of a crenarchaeal splicing endonuclease in vitro

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 334, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1254-1259

  Yoshinari, Shigeo ^a   Fujita, Shinji ^a   Masui, Ryoji ^b   Kuramitsu, Seiki ^b   Yokobori, Shin Ichi ^c   Kita, Kiyoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoh Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bulge helix bulge motif; Crenarchaea; EndA; Intron; Splicing endonuclease; Subunit structure; Sulfolobus tokodaii; Thermophile; tRNA precursor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENDONUCLEASE; NUCLEASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURIFICATION; RNA SPLICING; SULFOLOBUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN SPLICING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SULFOLOBUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SULFOLOBUS TOKODAII; SULFOLOBUS TOKODAII STR. 7;

EID: 23044503353     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.07.023     Document Type: Article

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