Nanoarchaeum equitans creates functional tRNAs from separate genes for their 5′- and 3′-halves

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7025, 2005, Pages 537-541

  Randau, Lennart ^a,b   Münch, Richard ^b   Hohn, Michael J ^a,c   Jahn, Dieter ^b   Söll, Dieter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; POLYMERS;

GLUTAMATE; HISTIDINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

RNA;

GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTIDINE; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

PARASITE;

AMINOACYLATION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; NANOARCHAEUM EQUITANS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS;

AMINOACYLATION; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMICS; GLUTAMATE-TRNA LIGASE; HISTIDINE-TRNA LIGASE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOARCHAEOTA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANS-SPLICING;

EID: 13444251251     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03233     Document Type: Article

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