Genetic code from tRNA point of view

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 242, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 922-934

  Chechetkin, V R ^a,b  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b TROITSK INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND FUSION RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Codon anticodon pairing; Evolution of code; Genetic code; Mutational and translational stability; tRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MUTATION; OPTIMIZATION; RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; ANTICODON; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 33748505624     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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