Is the sequence-specific binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs by EF-Tu universal among bacteria?

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9746-9758

  Schrader, Jared M ^a   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PHENYLALANINE; THREONINE; VALINE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; MESORHIZOBIUM; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 83755224662     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr641     Document Type: Article

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