An Appended Domain Results in an Unusual Architecture for Malaria Parasite Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Khan, Sameena ^a   Garg, Ankur ^a   Sharma, Arvind ^a   Camacho, Noelia ^b   Picchioni, Daria ^b   Saint Léger, Adélaïde ^b   de Pouplana, Lluís Ribas ^b,c   Yogavel, Manickam ^a   Sharma, Amit ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN-TRNA LIGASE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84878950023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066224     Document Type: Article

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