An inhibitory C-terminal region dictates the specificity of A-adding enzymes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 21040-21045

  Tretbar, Sandy ^a   Neuenfeldt, Anne ^a,b   Betat, Heike ^a   Mörl, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TERMINAL SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEINOCOCCUS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84855478202     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116117108     Document Type: Article

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