Directed Mutagenesis Identifies Amino Acid Residues Involved in Elongation Factor Tu Binding to yeast Phe-tRNAPhe

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 119-130

  Sanderson, Lee E ^a   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alanine scanning; indirect readout; protein mutagenesis; tRNA protein interaction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANYLYLIMIDODIPHOSPHATE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; YEAST;

THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 33947324018     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.01.075     Document Type: Article

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