Misacylation of yeast amber suppressor tRNATyr by E. coli lysyl-tRNA synthetase and its effective repression by genetic engineering of the tRNA sequence

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 689-696

  Fukunaga, Jun Ichi ^a   Yokogawa, Takashi ^a   Ohno, Satoshi ^a   Nishikawa, Kazuya ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl RNA synthesis; Misacylation; Protein synthesis; Transfer RNA; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SEQUENCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LYSINE-TRNA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, TYR; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION; YEASTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745657465     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvj078     Document Type: Article

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