Crystal structure of human cytosolic aspartyl-tRNA synthetase, a component of multi-tRNA synthetase complex

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1840-1846

  Kim, Kyung Rok ^a   Park, Sang Ho ^a   Kim, Hyoun Sook ^a   Rhee, Kyung Hee ^a   Kim, Byung Gyu ^a   Kim, Dae Gyu ^a   Park, Mi Seul ^a   Kim, Hyun Jung ^b   Kim, Sunghoon ^a   Han, Byung Woo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aspartyl tRNA synthetase; Crystal structure; Multi tRNA synthetase complex; N helix

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ASPARTIC ACID; DIMER; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; HOMODIMER; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPARTYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MULTI-TRNA SYNTHETASE COMPLEX; N-HELIX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTATE-TRNA LIGASE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84884208095     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24306     Document Type: Article

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