Only one nucleotide insertion to the long variable arm confers an efficient serine acceptor activity upon Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNA(Leu) in vitro

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 268, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 704-711

  Himeno, Hyouta ^a   Yoshida, Shukuko ^a   Soma, Akiko ^a   Nishikawa, Kazuya ^b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Negative identity determinant; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; The long variable arm; tRNA identity; tRNA(Ser)

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; SERINE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; SYNTHETASE; TYROSINE;

ACYLATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031574915     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0991     Document Type: Article

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