Modification of the wobble uridine in bacterial and mitochondrial tRNAs reading NNA/NNG triplets of 2-codon boxes

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1495-1507

  Armengod, M Eugenia ^a   Meseguer, Salvador ^a   Villarroya, Magda ^a   Prado, Silvia ^a   Moukadiri, Ismaïl ^a   Ruiz Partida, Rafael ^a   Garzón, M José ^a   Navarro González, Carmen ^a   Martínez Zamora, Ana ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

GTPBP3; MELAS; Mitochondrial diseases; MnmA; MnmC; MnmE; MnmG; MTO1; TrmL; TRMU MTU1; TRNA modification

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TRANSFER RNA; URIDINE; 5-CARBOXY-METHYLAMINOMETHYL-2'-O-METHYLURIDINE; ANTICODON; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MNMC PROTEIN, E COLI; MNME PROTEIN, E COLI; MNMG PROTEIN, E COLI; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; TRANSFERASE;

CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTICODON; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ANTICODON; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MITOCHONDRIA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; ONE-CARBON GROUP TRANSFERASES; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URIDINE;

EID: 84924859186     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/15476286.2014.992269     Document Type: Review

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