Substrate specificity and properties of the Escherichia coli 16S rRNA methyltransferase, RsmE

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1969-1976

  Basturea, Georgeta N ^a   Deutscher, Murray P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

E. coli; Methyltransferase; RNA modification; Small subunit

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SPERMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 35549012369     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.700507     Document Type: Article

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