Mechanism of transfer RNA maturation by CCA-adding enzyme without using an oligonucleotide template

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7000, 2004, Pages 640-645

  Xiong, Yong ^a,b   Steitz, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYMES; GENE TRANSFER;

BINDING SITES; NUCLEOTIDES;

RNA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGININE; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ENZYME; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARCHAEOGLOBUS; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS;

ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA, TRANSFER, PHE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 3943089138     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02711     Document Type: Article

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