tRNA as an active chemical scaffold for diverse chemical transformations

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 366-375

  Francklyn, Christopher S ^a,b   Minajigi, Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AA tRNA; Amino acid biosynthesis; Antibiotic synthesis; Membrane modification; Peptidoglycan synthesis

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RIBONUCLEASE; SELENOCYSTEINE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TETRAPYRROLE DERIVATIVE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALANIMYCIN;

AMINOACYLATION; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL METABOLISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HEME SYNTHESIS; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS VIRIDESCENS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOICHIOMETRY; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES VIRIDIFACIENS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; TETRAPYRROLES;

EID: 71549148346     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.045     Document Type: Review

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