Diversity and roles of (t)RNA ligases

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2657-2670

  Popow, Johannes ^a   Schleiffer, Alexander ^b   Martinez, Javier ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

2 ,3 cyclic phosphate; ASW; CGI 99; DDX1; FAM98; HSPC117; RNA ligase; Rnl1; Rnl2; RtcA; RtcB; ScTRL1; tRNA

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; ENDONUCLEASE; RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; EXCISION; EXON; HUMAN; INTRON; KINETOPLASTIDA; NUCLEOPHILICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA REPAIR; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; RNA LIGASE (ATP); RNA SPLICING; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84864204333     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-0944-2     Document Type: Review

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