The Era GTPase recognizes the GAUCACCUCC sequence and binds helix 45 near the 3′ end of 16S rRNA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 10156-10161

  Tu, Chao ^a   Zhou, Xiaomei ^a   Tarasov, Sergey G ^a   Tropea, Joseph E ^a   Austin, Brian P ^a   Waugh, David S ^a   Court, Donald L ^a   Ji, Xinhua ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell growth regulation; Ribosome biogenesis

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA 16S;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79959990833     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017679108     Document Type: Article

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