Determination of the angle between the acceptor and anticodon stems of a truncated mitochondrial tRNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 581-593

  Frazer Abel, Ashley A ^a   Hagerman, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Evolution; RNA structure; Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; URIDINE;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CATTLE; HEART MITOCHONDRION; METAZOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; YEAST;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; METAZOA;

EID: 0033555690     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2320     Document Type: Article

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