Flexizymes: Their evolutionary history and the origin of catalytic function

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1359-1368

  Morimoto, Jumpei ^a,b   Hayashi, Yuuki ^a,c   Iwasaki, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Suga, Hiroaki ^a,b,c  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Institute of Engineering Innovation   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; RIBOZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; AMINOACYLATION; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84255189091     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar2000953     Document Type: Article

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