A single tRNA base pair mediates bacterial tRNA-dependent biosynthesis of asparagine

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6083-6094

  Bailly, Marc ^a   Giannouli, Stamatina ^b   Blaise, Mickael ^a   Stathopoulos, Constantinos ^b   Kern, Daniel ^a   Becker, Hubert Dominique ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARAGINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIAL RNA; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; GLUTAMINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GUANINE; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL;

AMIDATION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ADENINE; ASPARAGINE; BASE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NITROGENOUS GROUP TRANSFERASES; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, ASN; RNA, TRANSFER, ASP; RNA, TRANSFER, GLN; RNA, TRANSFER, GLU; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URIDINE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33845632933     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl622     Document Type: Article

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