Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in medicine and disease

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 332-343

  Yao, Peng ^a   Fox, Paul L ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (ARSs); Human disease; Therapeutics; TRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ARGININE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ASPARTATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FEBRIFUGINE; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; HALOFUGINONE; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN P18; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; SERINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TAVABOROLE; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ALPERS DISEASE; AMINOACYLATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CARCINOGENESIS; DRUG TARGETING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MERRF SYNDROME; MISSENSE MUTATION; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERRAULT SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; AMINOACYLATION; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84874721917     PISSN: 17574676     EISSN: 17574684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201100626     Document Type: Review

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