Histidine 66 in Escherichia coli elongation factor Tu selectively stabilizes aminoacyl-tRNAs

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1229-1234

  Chapman, Stephen J ^a   Schrader, Jared M ^a   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDE; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; SELECTIVE MUTATION; SIDE-CHAINS; TERNARY COMPLEX;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTERS; MACROMOLECULES;

AMINO ACIDS;

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; HISTIDINE; HISTIDINE 66; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA STABILITY; STEADY STATE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HISTIDINE; HYDROLYSIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84855476124     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.294850     Document Type: Article

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