Arginine aminoacylation identity is context-dependent and ensured by alternate recognition sets in the anticodon loop of accepting tRNA transcripts

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 5069-5076

  Sissler, Marie ^a   Giegé, Richard ^a   Florentz, Catherine ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Arginine; Aspartate; Identity; Recognition set; Transfer RNA

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGININE TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; YEAST;

EID: 0029842244     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00887.x     Document Type: Article

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