Functional importance of Crenarchaea-specific extra-loop revealed by an X-ray structure of a heterotetrameric crenarchaeal splicing endonuclease

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4787-4798

  Yoshinari, Shigeo ^a   Shiba, Tomoo ^b   Inaoka, Daniel Ken ^a   Itoh, Takashi ^c   Kurisu, Genji ^b   Harada, Shigeharu ^d   Kita, Kiyoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoh Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^d KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; HOMODIMER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PYROBACULUM; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYROBACULUM; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; PYROBACULUM AEROPHILUM;

EID: 69049083528     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp506     Document Type: Article

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