Selective charging of tRNA isoacceptors explains patterns of codon usage

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5626, 2003, Pages 1718-1722

  Elf, Johan ^a   Nilsson, Daniel ^b   Tenson, Tanel ^c   Ehrenberg, Måns ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COENZYMES;

ISOACCEPTORS;

RNA;

AMINO ACID; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID; RNA;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CODON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

EID: 0038179369     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1083811     Document Type: Article

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