The secondary structure of eukaryotic selenocysteine tRNA: 7/5 versus 9/4

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 241-245

  Steinberg, Sergey V ^a,b   Ioudovitch, Anatoli ^a,b   Cedergren, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Succursale Centre Ville   (Canada)

Author keywords

Selenocysteine trna; Trna; Trna identity; Trna structure

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; TRNA, SELENOCYSTEINE; TRNA, SELENOCYSTEINE-;

BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; LETTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC;

EID: 0032013834     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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