Elongator, a conserved complex required for wobble uridine modifications in Eukaryotes

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1519-1528

  Karlsborn, Tony ^a   Tükenmez, Hasan ^a   Mahmud, A K M Firoj ^a   Xu, Fu ^a   Xu, Hao ^a   Byström, Anders S ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elongator complex; Kluveromyces lactis toxin; KTI genes; SAP genes; SIT4; Translation; tRNA wobble uridine modifications

Indexed keywords

5 CARBAMOYLMETHYL; 5 METHOXYCARBONYLMETHYL; CARBAMIC ACID; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; ELONGATOR; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE; ANTICODON; CODON; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE PRODUCT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST; ANIMAL; ANTICODON; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; ANTICODON; ARABIDOPSIS; CODON; GENETIC CODE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MICE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; URIDINE;

EID: 84924977986     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/15476286.2014.992276     Document Type: Review

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