Idiosyncratic features in tRNAs participating in bacterial cell wall synthesis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6870-6883

  Villet, Régis ^a,b,c   Fonvielle, Matthieu ^a,b,c   Busca, Patricia ^b,d   Chemama, Maryline ^b,d   Maillard, Antoine P ^a,b,c,f   Hugonnet, Jean Emmanuel ^a,b,c   Dubost, Lionel ^e   Marie, Arul ^e   Josseaume, Nathalie ^a,b,c   Mesnage, Stéphane ^a,b,c   Mayer, Claudine ^a,b,c   Valéry, Jean Marc ^b,d   Ethève Quelquejeu, Mélanie ^b,d   Arthur, Michel ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; AMINO ACID; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOSINE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BASE PAIRING; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GLYCOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WEISELLA VIRIDESCENS;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); WEISSELLA VIRIDESCENS;

EID: 36749012916     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm778     Document Type: Article

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