Ribosomal features essential for tna operon induction: Tryptophan binding at the peptidyl transferase center

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3140-3146

  Cruz Vera, Luis R ^a   New, Aaron ^b   Squires, Catherine ^b   Yanofsky, Charles ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PUROMYCIN; SPARSOMYCIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; WILD TYPE;

BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPERON; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PUROMYCIN; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; SPARSOMYCIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 34247868068     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01869-06     Document Type: Article

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