In vivo identification of essential nucleotides in tRNALeu to its functions by using a constructed yeast tRNALeu knockout strain

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10463-10477

  Huang, Qian ^a   Yao, Peng ^a   Eriani, Gilbert ^b   Wang, En Duo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LIBRARY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANTICODON; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE LIBRARY; LEUCINE-TRNA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; RNA EDITING; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84869002713     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks783     Document Type: Article

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