Crystal structures of three protozoan homologs of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-28

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Cryptosporidium; Entamoeba; Giardia; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ISOPROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSOL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GIARDIA; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPTOPHAN-TRNA LIGASE;

APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 79952452100     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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