tRNA-nucleotidyltransferases: Highly unusual RNA polymerases with vital functions

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-302

  Vörtler, Stefan ^a   Mörl, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATP(CTP):tRNA nucleotidyltransferase; CCA adding enzyme; Nucleotidyltransferase; tRNA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA POLYMERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TELOMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 71549135205     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.10.078     Document Type: Review

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