The discovery of modified nucleosides from the early days to the present: A personal perspective

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 465-475

  Nishimura, Susumu ^a   Watanabe, Kimitsuna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOSIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

DNA; GENETICS;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

BASE PAIRING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEOSIDES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 33750978172     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: 02505991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02705186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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