An arginine-aspartate network in the active site of bacterial TruB is critical for catalyzing pseudouridine formation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3857-3870

  Friedt, Jenna ^a   Leavens, Fern M V ^a   Mercier, Evan ^a,b   Wieden, Hans Joachim ^a   Kothe, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA, TRANSFER; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84899031477     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1331     Document Type: Article

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