Evolutionary conservation of a functionally important backbone phosphate group critical for aminoacylation of histidine tRNAs

RNA

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1315-1322

  Rosen, Abbey E ^a   Brooks, Bonnie S ^a   Guth, Ethan ^b   Francklyn, Christopher S ^b   Musier Forsyth, Karin ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptor stem microhelix; Atomic group mutagenesis; Extra base pair; Phosphate recognition; tRNA recognition; Yeast histidine tRNA synthetase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; HISTIDINE TRANSFER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; RNA HELICASE;

ACYLATION; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHESIS; YEAST;

ACYLATION; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, TRANSFER, HIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33745615842     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.78606     Document Type: Article

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