Atomic mutagenesis reveals A2660 of 23S ribosomal RNA as key to EF-G GTPase activation

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 344-351

  Clementi, Nina ^a   Chirkova, Anna ^a   Puffer, Barbara ^b   Micura, Ronald ^b   Polacek, Norbert ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROLYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PURINE METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 77951297777     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.341     Document Type: Article

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