The archaeal COG1901/DUF358 SPOUT-methyltransferase members, together with pseudouridine synthase Pus10,catalyze the formation of 1-methylpseudouridine at position 54 of tRNA

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Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 421-433

  Chatterjee, Kunal ^a   Blaby, Ian K ^b,e   Thiaville, Patrick C ^b   Majumder, Mrinmoyee ^a   Grosjean, Henri ^c   Adam Yuan, Y ^d   Gupta, Ramesh ^a   De Crécy Lagard, Valérie ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Haloferax volcanii; TrmY; tRNA methylation; tRNA modification

Indexed keywords

1 METHYLPSEUDOURIDINE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN COG1901; PSEUDOURIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CATALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; IN VITRO STUDY; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEA; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; METHANOCOCCALES; METHYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, TRANSFER; TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 84857387516     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.030841.111     Document Type: Article

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