Partitioning of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in two classes could have been encoded in a strand-symmetric RNA world

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 617-626

  Rodin, Sergei N ^a   Rodin, Andrei S ^b  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DINUCLEOTIDE; PALINDROMIC DNA; PALINDROMIC RNA; RIBOZYME; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODON; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; ANTICODON; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTOZOA; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

EID: 33845335475     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2006.25.617     Document Type: Article

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