Pseudouridine at position 55 in tRNA controls the contents of other modified nucleotides for low-temperature adaptation in the extreme-thermophilic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2304-2318

  Ishida, Kazuo ^a   Kunibayashi, Takashi ^a   Tomikawa, Chie ^a   Ochi, Anna ^a   Kanai, Tamotsu ^b   Hirata, Akira ^a   Iwashita, Chikako ^a   Hori, Hiroyuki ^a,c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN SPring 8 Center ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; PSEUDOURIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GROWTH INHIBITION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA DEGRADATION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRUB GENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; METHIONINE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 79953686522     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1180     Document Type: Article

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