Elongation factor Ts from the Antarctic Eubacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAG 125: Biochemical characterization and cloning of the encoding gene

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 14759-14766

  Raimo, Gennaro ^a,b   Lombardo, Barbara ^a,c   Masullo, Mariorosario ^a,d   Lamberti, Annalisa ^a   Longo, Olimpia ^a   Arcari, Paolo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^d Department of Pharmacobiological Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEINS;

ELONGATION FACTORS; MONOMERIC PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE;

GENES;

AMINO ACID; DIMER; ELONGATION FACTOR TS; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; MONOMER; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSUEDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS TAC 125; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 8744268550     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048949b     Document Type: Article

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