How glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase selects glutamine

Structure

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 439-449

  Rath, Virginia L ^a,c   Silvian, Laura F ^a   Beijer, Barbro ^b   Sproat, Brian S ^b   Steitz, Thomas A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Innovir GmbH   (Germany)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Synthetase; Translation; tRNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032522422     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(98)00046-X     Document Type: Article

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