Identification and characterization of a tRNA decoding the rare AUA codon in Haloarcula marismortui

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-126

  Köhrer, Caroline ^a   Srinivasan, Gayathri ^a   Mandal, Debabrata ^a   Mallick, Bibekanand ^b   Ghosh, Zhumur ^b   Chakrabarti, Jayprokas ^b   Rajbhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Archaea; Base modification; Haloarcula marismortui; Lysidine; Minor isoleucine tRNA

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; URIDINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODON; EUBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION;

ACETYLATION; ANTICODON; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI;

EID: 38049074880     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.795508     Document Type: Article

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