The many routes of bacterial transfer RNAs after aminoacylation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-101

  Blanquet, Sylvain ^a   Mechulam, Yves ^a   Schmitt, Emmanuelle ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE BIOCHIMIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033962666     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)00055-X     Document Type: Review

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