Guilt by association: The arginine case revisited

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 499-510

  Knight, Robin D ^a   Landweber, Laura F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Chemical evolution; Genetic code; RNA world; SELEX

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; RNA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; BINDING SITE; CODON; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ANTICODON; ARGININE; ARTIFACTS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BINDING SITES; CODON; COENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; LIGANDS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; STATISTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033993457     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200000145     Document Type: Review

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