Modified nucleotides in tRNALys and tRNAVal are important for translocation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 338, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 439-444

  Phelps, Steven S ^a   Malkiewicz, Andrzej ^b   Agris, Paul F ^c   Joseph, Simpson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ASL, anticodon stem loop; Decoding; mnm, methylaminomethyluridine; Ribosome; Translocation; tRNA; Wobble

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSPORT;

EID: 1842686227     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.02.070     Document Type: Article

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