A mechanism for functional segregation of mitochondrial and cytosolic genetic codes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 19420-19425

  Español, Yaiza ^a   Thut, Daniel ^b   Schneider, André ^b   De Pouplana, Lluís Ribas ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases; Mitochondria; tRNA; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSOL; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; LYSINE-TRNA LIGASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 73349108504     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909937106     Document Type: Article

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