Assembly of an active group II intron-maturase complex by protein dimerization

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 6486-6497

  Rambo, Robert P ^a   Doudna, Jennifer A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERIZATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSTATICS; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; PURIFICATION; RNA; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ENZYME HOMOLOGY; PROTEIN DIMERIZATION;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; DIMERIC PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; GROUP II INTRON ENCODED PROTEIN; INTRON MATURASE COMPLEX; LTRA PROTEIN; MATURASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DI DOMAIN; DIMERIZATION; DISSOCIATION; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DIV DOMAIN; ELECTRICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EQUILIBRIUM DISSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTRON; INTRON DOMAIN; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; STOICHIOMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROSTATICS; INTRONS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 2542540696     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi049912u     Document Type: Article

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