Structural insights into methyltransferase KsgA function in 30S ribosomal subunit biogenesis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 10453-10459

  Boehringer, Daniel ^a   O'Farrell, Heather C ^b   Rife, Jason P ^b   Ban, Nenad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE RESIDUES; C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; DECODING SITES; METHYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY; METHYLTRANSFERASES; N-TERMINAL DOMAINS; RIBOSOMAL RNA (RRNA); RIBOSOMAL SUBUNITS; RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS; RRNA PROCESSING; STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS;

BIOSYNTHESIS; MACROMOLECULES; MEDICAL IMAGING;

RNA;

ADENOSINE; KSGA PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, BACTERIAL; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84858968097     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.318121     Document Type: Article

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