FEBS Letters
Volume 491, Issue 3 , Pages 257-260 , 2 March 2001

Conserved amino acids near the carboxy terminus of bacterial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase are involved in tRNA and Tyr-AMP binding

Edited by Lev Kisselev

  • J.C Salazar

      Affiliations

    • Programa de Biologı́a Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 70086 Santiago 7, Chile
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  • R Zuñiga

      Affiliations

    • Programa de Biologı́a Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 70086 Santiago 7, Chile
  • ,
  • C Lefimil

      Affiliations

    • Programa de Biologı́a Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 70086 Santiago 7, Chile
  • ,
  • D Söll

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA
  • ,
  • O Orellana

      Affiliations

    • Programa de Biologı́a Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 70086 Santiago 7, Chile
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: (562)-737-6320

Received 28 January 2001 ,Accepted 2 February 2001.

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FEBS Letters
Volume 491, Issue 3 , Pages 257-260 , 2 March 2001