C to U editing of the anticodon of imported mitochondrial tRNA(Trp) allows decoding of the UGA stop codon in Leishmania tarentolae

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 7056-7062

  Alfonzo, Juan D ^a   Blanc, Valerie ^a   Estévez, Antonio M ^a   Rubio, Mary Anne T ^b   Simpson, Larry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticodon; Editing; Mitochondria; Translation; tRNA

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA EDITING; STOP CODON;

LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033572678     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.24.7056     Document Type: Article

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