Genetic code origins: tRNAs older than their synthetases?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 11295-11300

  De Pouplana, Lluís Ribas ^a   Turner, Robert J ^a   Steer, Brian A ^a   Schimmel, Paul ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032530786     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.19.11295     Document Type: Article

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