X-ray structure of the fourth type of archaeal tRNA splicing endonuclease: Insights into the evolution of a novel three-unit composition and a unique loop involved in broad substrate specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10554-10566

  Hirata, Akira ^a   Fujishima, Kosuke ^b,c   Yamagami, Ryota ^a   Kawamura, Takuya ^a   Banfield, Jillian F ^d   Kanai, Akio ^b   Hori, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSFER RNA SPLICING ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ACIDIPHILIUM; ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; NANOARCHAEOTA;

EID: 84869057710     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks826     Document Type: Article

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