The Escherichia coli RlmN methyltransferase is a dual-specificity enzyme that modifies both rRNA and tRNA and controls translational accuracy

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1783-1795

  Benítez Páez, Alfonso ^a,b   Villarroya, Magda ^a   Armengod, M Eugenia ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^b Bioinformatic Analysis Group GABi   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Anticodon region; Peptidyl transferase center; Radical SAM enzymes; RNA modification; Translational misreading; yfgB

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RLMN METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA METHYLATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866603533     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.033266.112     Document Type: Article

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