Methionyl-tRNA synthetase from Caenorhabditis elegans: A specific multidomain organization for convergent functional evolution

Protein Science

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2475-2484

  Havrylenko, Svitlana ^a,b   Legouis, Renaud ^c   Negrutskii, Boris ^b   Mirande, Marc ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Ukraine)

^c CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Methionyl tRNA synthetase; Nematode; RNA binding domain; tRNA sequestering activity

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; METHIONINE-TRNA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 78649660535     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.529     Document Type: Article

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