Is there a twenty third amino acid in the genetic code?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 357-360

  Lobanov, Alexey V ^a   Kryukov, Gregory V ^a   Hatfield, Dolph L ^b   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTICODON; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SHORT SURVEY;

AMINO ACIDS; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LYSINE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER; SELENOCYSTEINE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33745754616     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.05.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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