Modification at position 9 with 1-methyladenosine is crucial for structure and function of nematode mitochondrial tRNAs lacking the entire T-arm

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1653-1661

  Sakurai, Masayuki ^a   Ohtsuki, Takashi ^a,c   Watanabe, Kimitsuna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYLADENOSINE; HELMINTH RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA; 1-METHYLADENOSINE; ADENOSINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; NUCLEOSIDE; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ASCARIS SUUM;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; ASCARIS SUUM; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSIDES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; RNA; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

EID: 15044362242     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki309     Document Type: Article

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