A novel three-unit tRNA splicing endonuclease found in ultrasmall Archaea possesses broad substrate specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9695-9704

  Fujishima, Kosuke ^a   Sugahara, Junichi ^a   Miller, Christopher S ^b   Baker, Brett J ^b   Di Giulio, Massimo ^c   Takesue, Kanako ^a   Sato, Asako ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a   Banfield, Jillian F ^b   Kanai, Akio ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COEVOLUTION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EURYARCHAEOTA; INTRON; MICRARCHAEUM ACIDOPHILUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83755220048     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr692     Document Type: Article

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