Structural insights into the function of a unique tandem GTPase EngA in bacterial ribosome assembly

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 13430-13439

  Zhang, Xiaoxiao ^a   Yan, Kaige ^a   Zhang, Yixiao ^a   Li, Ningning ^a   Ma, Chengying ^a   Li, Zhifei ^a   Zhang, Yanqing ^a   Feng, Boya ^a   Liu, Jing ^a,b   Sun, Yadong ^a   Xu, Yanji ^a   Lei, Jianlin ^a   Gao, Ning ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chengdu Shishi High School   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGA PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; LARGE RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, LARGE, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84941117035     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1135     Document Type: Article

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