Caenorhabditis elegans glp-4 encodes a valyl aminoacyl tRNA synthetase

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2719-2728

  Rastogi, Suchita ^a   Borgo, Ben ^a   Pazdernik, Nanette ^a   Fox, Paul ^a   Mardis, Elaine R ^a   Kohara, Yuji ^b   Havranek, Jim ^a   Schedl, Tim ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; C. elegans; Germline; glp 4; Stress resistance; Valine tRNA synthetase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ASPARTIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE TRANSFER RNA; VALYL AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE; ANTICODON; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; DEACYLATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA TRANSLATION; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTICODON; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; ANTICODON; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC LOCI; GERM CELLS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84949991136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.021899     Document Type: Article

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