The substrate specificity of tRNA (m1G37) methyltransferase (TrmD) from Aquifex aeolicus

Genes to Cells

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1353-1365

  Takeda, Hiroshi ^a   Toyooka, Takashi ^a   Ikeuchi, Yoshiho ^b   Yokobori, Shin Ichi ^c   Okadome, Kan ^a   Takano, Fuyumi ^a   Oshima, Tairo ^c,d   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^b   Endo, Yaeta ^a   Hori, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d Kyowa kako Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE; PYRIMIDINE; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33751239437     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2006.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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