Crystal Structure of a Non-discriminating Glutamyl-tRNA Synthetase

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 361, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 888-897

  Schulze, Jörg O ^a   Masoumi, Ava ^b   Nickel, Daniel ^a   Jahn, Martina ^b   Jahn, Dieter ^b   Schubert, Wolf Dieter ^a   Heinz, Dirk W ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

aminoacylation; anticodon recognition; glutaminyl tRNA synthetase; misacylation; mischarging

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLYCINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EUKARYOTA; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 33746864929     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.06.054     Document Type: Article

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