The 'polysemous' codon - A codon with multiple amino acid assignment caused by dual specificity of tRNA identity

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1122-1134

  Suzuki, Tsutomu ^a,b   Ueda, Takuya ^a   Watanabe, Kimitsuna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Candida; Genetic code; Translational fidelity

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; SERINE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANTICODON; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CODON; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KINETICS; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OROTIC ACID; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; SERINE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA CYLINDRACEA; CANDIDA MALTOSA; FUNGI;

EID: 0031051572     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.5.1122     Document Type: Article

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