Selectivity and specificity of substrate binding in methionyl-tRNA synthetase

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2693-2705

  Datta, Deepshikha ^a   Vaidehi, Nagarajan ^a   Zhang, Deqiang ^a   Goddard III, William A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational change; HierDock; Methionine; MetRS; Selectivity; Synthetase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE DERIVATIVE; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHIONINE; METHIONINE-TRNA LIGASE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 4644348987     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.04792204     Document Type: Article

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