Yeast mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase CP1 domain has functionally diverged to accommodate RNA splicing at expense of hydrolytic editing

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 14772-14781

  Sarkar, Jaya ^a   Poruri, Kiranmai ^a   Boniecki, Michal T ^a   McTavish, Katherine K ^a   Martinis, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYLATION; E. COLI; FULL-LENGTH ENZYMES; GROUP I INTRONS; IN-VITRO; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING; SYNTHETASES;

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RNA;

YEAST;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CONNECTIVE POLYPEPTIDE 1; FUNGAL ENZYME; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84860379061     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.322412     Document Type: Article

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