Initiator-elongator discrimination in vertebrate tRNAs for protein synthesis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1459-1466

  Drabkin, Harold J ^a   Estrella, Melanie ^a   Rajbhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; MAMMAL; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0031952186     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.3.1459     Document Type: Article

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