Extremely Thermophilic Translation System in the Common Ancestor Commonote: Ancestral Mutants of Glycyl-tRNA Synthetase from the Extreme Thermophile Thermus thermophilus

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 369, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1060-1069

  Shimizu, Hideaki ^a   Yokobori, Shin ichi ^a   Ohkuri, Takatoshi ^a   Yokogawa, Takashi ^b   Nishikawa, Kazuya ^b   Yamagishi, Akihiko ^a  

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

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ancestral residue; Commonote, universal common ancestor; glycyl tRNA synthetase; protein stability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYPERTHERMOPHILE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 34248562516     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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