Functional compensation by particular nucleotide substitutions of a critical G·U wobble base-pair during aminoacylation of transfer RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1025-1032

  McClain, William H ^a   Gabriel, Kay ^a   Bhattacharya, Subhra ^a   Jou, Ye Yu ^a   Schneider, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Functional compensation; Protein synthesis; tRNA acceptor identity; tRNA recognition

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE TRANSFER RNA; SYNTHETASE;

AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033525648     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2542     Document Type: Article

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