Cleavage of intron from the standard or non-standard position of the precursor tRNA by the splicing endonuclease of Aeropyrum pernix, a hyper-thermophilic Crenarchaeon, involves a novel RNA recognition site in the Crenarchaea specific loop

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 9376-9389

  Hirata, Akira ^a   Kitajima, Tsubasa ^a   Hori, Hiroyuki ^a,b  

^a Graduate School of Science and Engineering   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; LYSINE; TRANSFER RNA;

AEROPYRUM PERNIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARCHAEAOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; INTRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA RECOGNITION SITE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; WILD TYPE;

AEROPYRUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, TRANSFER, THR; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82255185634     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr615     Document Type: Article

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