Idiosyncratic tuning of tRNAs to achieve uniform ribosome binding

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 788-793

  Olejniczak, Mikołaj ^a,b   Dale, Taraka ^a   Fahlman, Richard P ^a,c   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; GLYCINE; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA; ALANINE TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHIMERA; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTICODON; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 26944438405     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb978     Document Type: Article

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