The naturally occurring N6-threonyl adenine in anticodon loop of Schizosaccharomyces pombe tRNAi causes formation of a unique U-turn motif

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2878-2886

  Lescrinier, Eveline ^a   Nauwelaerts, Koen ^a   Zanier, Katia ^b   Poesen, Koen ^b   Sattler, Michael ^b   Herdewijn, Piet ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE DERIVATIVE; LYSINE; TRANSFER RNA; ADENINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FUNGAL RNA; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; N (PURIN 6 YLCARBAMOYL)THREONINE; N-(PURIN-6-YLCARBAMOYL)THREONINE; THREONINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ADENINE; ANTICODON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SOLUTIONS; THREONINE;

EID: 33745126327     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl081     Document Type: Article

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