A conserved and essential basic region mediates tRNA binding to the Elp1 subunit of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Elongator complex

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1227-1242

  Di Santo, Rachael ^a   Bandau, Susanne ^a   Stark, Michael J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATOR PROTEIN 1; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE; ELONGATION FACTOR; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IKI3 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84902080752     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12624     Document Type: Article

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