Identification and evolution of fungal mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases with group I intron splicing activity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6010-6015

  Paukstelis, Paul J ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Medical mycology; Protein structure function; Ribozyme; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME; TRANSFER RNA; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COCCIDIOIDES; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOPLASMA; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; SACCHAROMYCOTINA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COCCIDIOIDES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HISTOPLASMA; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TYROSINE; TYROSINE-TRNA LIGASE;

EID: 43149110609     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801722105     Document Type: Article

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