A unique tRNA recognition mechanism of Caenorhabditis elegans mitochondrial EF-Tu2

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 4683-4691

  Suematsu, Takuma ^a,b   Sato, Aya ^a   Sakurai, Masayuki ^a   Watanabe, Kimitsuna ^a,c   Ohtsuki, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; ELONGATION FACTOR TU1; ELONGATION FACTOR TU2; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EF TU2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; EF-TU2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

EID: 24044535123     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki784     Document Type: Article

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