Exploring the specificity of bacterial elongation factor Tu for different tRNAs

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6194-6200

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

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; MUTAGENESIS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

DYNAMIC PROPERTIES; POINT MUTATIONS; SPECIFICITY; TRNA;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ELONGATION FACTOR TU; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; POINT MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 34249074643     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi602548v     Document Type: Article

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