Analysis of genomic tRNA sets from Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya points to anticodon-codon hydrogen bonds as a major determinant of tRNA compositional variations

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1095-1109

  Targanski, Ilia ^a   Cherkasova, Vera ^b  

^a BioLing Inc   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended anticodon; Hydrogen bonds; tRNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTICODON; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DYNAMICS; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTICODON; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; GENOME; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN BONDING; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 44149110125     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.896108     Document Type: Article

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