Snapshots of tRNA sulphuration via an adenylated intermediate

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7101, 2006, Pages 419-424

  Numata, Tomoyuki ^a   Ikeuchi, Yoshiho ^b   Fukai, Shuya ^a   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^b   Nureki, Osamu ^a,c,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONFORMATIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYMES; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GLUTAMINE TRANSFER; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENTIAL CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

RNA;

2 THIOURIDINE; ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LYSINE; MNMA THIOURIDYLASE; SOLVENT; SULFUR; THIOURIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; MNMA PROTEIN, E COLI;

CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PROTEIN; RNA; SULFUR;

ACCURACY; ALPHA HELIX; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BETA HAIRPIN; CHEMICAL REACTION; CODON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SULFURATION; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANTICODON; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER, GLU; SULFUR;

EID: 33747125139     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04896     Document Type: Article

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