Transfer RNA genes in pieces

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 623-628

  Randau, Lennart ^a   Söll, Dieter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; PLASMID DNA; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANTICODON; ARCHAEAL VIRUS; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 46449136416     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.101     Document Type: Review

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