NMR structure of the C-terminal domain of a Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase that functions in group i intron splicing

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3816-3826

  Paukstelis, Paul J ^a   Chari, Nandini ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a   Hoffman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIFUNCTIONAL PROTEINS; C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; CATALYTIC CORE; CATALYTIC DOMAINS; COCRYSTAL STRUCTURE; COFACTORS; FLEXIBLE LINKERS; FULL-LENGTH PROTEINS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; HOMODIMERIC PROTEINS; LARGE SHIFTS; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; N-TERMINALS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NMR STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL ADAPTATION; SYNTHETASES;

MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; RNA; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIAL RNA; HOMODIMER; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; SYNTHETASE; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FUNGUS; GENE INSERTION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; INTRON; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONHUMAN; PEZIZOMYCONTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; INTRONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOLVENTS; TYROSINE-TRNA LIGASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEZIZOMYCOTINA;

EID: 79955619794     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi200189u     Document Type: Article

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