THUMP from archaeal tRNA:m22G10 methyltransferase, a genuine autonomously folding domain

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2483-2494

  Gabant, Guillaume ^a   Auxilien, Sylvie ^b   Tuszynska, Irina ^c   Locard, Marie ^b   Gajda, Michal J ^c,d   Chaussinand, Guylaine ^a   Fernandez, Bernard ^a   Dedieu, Alain ^a   Grosjean, Henri ^b   Golinelli Pimpaneau, Béatrice ^b   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^c   Armengaud, Jean ^a  

^a CEA Marcoule   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ARCHAEAL RNA; ARGININE TRANSFER RNA; DISULFIDE; GUANOSINE; NUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SYNTHETASE; THIOURIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPSIN; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEMETHYLATION; DISULFIDE BOND; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; SURFACE PROPERTY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 33744456017     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl145     Document Type: Article

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