Two residues in the anticodon recognition domain of the aspartyl-tRNA synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa are individually implicated in the recognition of tRNAAsn

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 269-274

  Bernard, Dominic ^a,b   Akochy, Pierre Marie ^b   Beaulieu, David ^b   Lapointe, Jacques ^b   Roy, Paul H ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE TRANSFER RNA; ASPARTATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ASPARTIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMIDATION; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTICODON; ASPARTATE-TRNA LIGASE; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, TRANSFER, ASN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33644913721     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.1.269-274.2006     Document Type: Article

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