Transfer RNA processing in archaea: Unusual pathways and enzymes

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-309

  Heinemann, Ilka U ^a   Söll, Dieter ^a   Randau, Lennart ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C to U editing; Splicing endonuclease; Trans splicing; tRNA introns; tRNA processing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTICODON; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EXON; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 71549163449     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.10.067     Document Type: Review

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