Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase variants reveal ancestral aminoacylation function

FEBS Letters

Volumn 587, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 3243-3248

  Ko, Jae Hyeong ^a   Wang, Yane Shih ^a   Nakamura, Akiyoshi ^a   Guo, Li Tao ^a   Söll, Dieter ^a,b   Umehara, Takuya ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Non canonical amino acid; Phenylalanyl tRNA synthetase; Pyrrolysyl tRNA synthetase; Superfolder green fluorescent protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ENZYME VARIANT; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; PYRROLYSYL TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; METHANOSARCINA MAZEI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NON-CANONICAL AMINO ACID; PHENYLALANYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE; PYRROLYSYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE; SUPERFOLDER GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; AMINOACYLATION; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LYSINE; MUTATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84884286239     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.08.018     Document Type: Article

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