Structural and sequence elements important for recognition of Escherichia coli formylmethionine tRNA by methionyl-tRNA transformylase are clustered in the acceptor stem.

Abstract excerpt

We show that the structure and/or sequence of the first three base pairs at the end of the amino acid acceptor stem of Escherichia coli initiator tRNA and the discriminator base 73 are important for its formylation by E. coli methionyl-tRNA transformylase. This conclusion is based on mutagenesis...

Topics

• Acyltransferases
• Anticodon
• Base Sequence
• Escherichia coli
• Hydroxymethyl and Formyl Transferases
• Kinetics
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Nucleic Acid Conformation
• RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl
• RNA, Transfer, Met