Initiation of in vivo protein synthesis with non-methionine amino acids.

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Initiation of in vivo protein synthesis with non-methionine amino acids.

Biochemistry - 8 May 1990

Chattapadhyay R, Pelka H, Schulman L H

Abstract excerpt

Methionine is the universal amino acid for initiation of protein synthesis in all known organisms. The amino acid is coupled to a specific initiator methionine tRNA by methionyl-tRNA synthetase. In Escherichia coli, attachment of methionine to the initiator tRNA (tRNA(fMet)) has been shown to be...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Anticodon
Base Sequence
Escherichia coli
Galactosidases
Kinetics
Methionine
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Plasmids
Protein Biosynthesis
RNA, Transfer
RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl
RNA, Transfer, Met
beta-Galactosidase

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