The structure of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase from Giardia lamblia reveals divergence from eukaryotic homologs

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 238-243

  Arakaki, Tracy L ^a,b   Carter, Megan ^a,c   Napuli, Alberto J ^a,c   Verlinde, Christophe L M J ^a,b   Fan, Erkang ^a,b   Zucker, Frank ^a,b   Buckner, Frederick S ^a,c   Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a,c   Hol, Wim G J ^a,b   Merritt, Ethan A ^a,b  

^a Medical Structural Genomics of Pathogenic Protozoa ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Protozoa; Structural genomics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; DIMER; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MECHANISM; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRYPTOPHAN-TRNA LIGASE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIPLOMONADIDA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77953713828     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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