Breaking the stereo barrier of amino acid attachment to tRNA by a single nucleotide

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 348, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 513-521

  Shitivelband, Svetlana ^a   Hou, Ya Ming ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacylation; Cysteine; Cysteinyl tRNA synthetase; U73

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE TRANSFER RNA; HYDROXYL GROUP; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA; VALINE;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOCHEMISTRY; WILD TYPE;

EID: 17144367015     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.02.023     Document Type: Article

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