Molecular investigations on tRNAs involved in human mitochondrial disorders

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-98

  Florentz, Catherine ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Aminoacylation; In vitro transcription; Proteomics; Translation; tRNA structure

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ATAXIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEIGH DISEASE; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRION; MYOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POINT MUTATION; PROTEOMICS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0036487274     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016065107165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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