Identification of the residues involved in the unique serine specificity of Caenorhabditis elegans mitochondrial EF-Tu2

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 36, 2006, Pages 10920-10927

  Sato, Aya ^a   Watanabe, Yoh Ichi ^b   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^a   Komiyama, Makoto ^a   Watanabe, Kimitsuna ^a,d   Ohtsuki, Takashi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIOLOGY; ESTERIFICATION; MUTAGENESIS; RNA;

BINDING POCKET; MUTANTS; NEMATODES; SERINE;

CYTOLOGY;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; ELONGATION FACTOR TU1; ELONGATION FACTOR TU2; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SERINE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESTERIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 33748493391     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi060536i     Document Type: Article

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