Expression, purification, and characterization of a new heterotetramer structure of leucyl-tRNA synthetase from Aquifex aeolicus in Escherichia coli

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Olieric, Natacha ^a   Bey, Gilbert ^a   Nierengarten, Hélène ^a,c   Wang, En Duo ^d   Moras, Dino ^a   Eriani, Gilbert ^b   Cavarelli, Jean ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c Polymers and Materials   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Leucyl tRNA synthetase; Quaternary structure

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

AMINOACYLATION; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA; LEUCINE-TRNA LIGASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RNA, TRANSFER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646497884     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2005.09.009     Document Type: Article

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