The yfhQ gene of Escherichia coli encodes a tRNA:Cm32/Um32 methyltransferase

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Purta, Elzbieta ^a,b   van Vliet, Françoise ^c   Tkaczuk, Karolina L ^a,d   Dunin Horkawicz, Stanislaw ^a   Mori, Hirotada ^e   Droogmans, Louis ^f   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^a,g  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^c Institut de Recherches Microbiologiques J M Wiame   (Belgium)

^d LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^g ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN LAST; PROTEIN YBEA; PROTEIN YFHQ; PROTEIN YIBK; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA METHYLATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; METHYLATION; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA, TRANSFER; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

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

EID: 33748711082     PISSN: 14712199     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-7-23     Document Type: Article

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