Selenomodification of tRNA in archaea requires a bipartite rhodanese enzyme

FEBS Letters

Volumn 586, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 717-721

  Su, Dan ^a   Ojo, Temitope T ^a   Söll, Dieter ^a   Hohn, Michael J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Methanococcus maripaludis; Selenouridine; tRNA 2 selenouridine synthase; YbbB

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENONUCLEOSIDE; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE DELETION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHANOCOCCALES; METHANOCOCCUS MARIPALUDIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSFER RNA MODIFICATION; YBBB GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; LIGASES; METHANOCOCCUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, TRANSFER; SELENIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; URIDINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; METHANOCOCCALES; METHANOCOCCUS MARIPALUDIS;

EID: 84858705258     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.01.024     Document Type: Article

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