A single residue in leucyl-tRNA synthetase affecting amino acid specificity and tRNA aminoacylation

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4466-4472

  Lue, Stanley W ^a   Kelley, Shana O ^a,b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CONFORMATIONS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINOACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE (AARS); AMINOACYLATION; CATALYTIC EFFICIENCY;

RNA;

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; LEUCINE-TRNA LIGASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34247232561     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0618215     Document Type: Article

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