Evidence from glycine transfer RNA of a frozen accident at the dawn of the genetic code

Biology Direct

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bernhardt, Harold S ^a   Tate, Warren P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; TRNA, GLYCINE; TRNA, GLYCINE-;

AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

EID: 59349109389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-53     Document Type: Article

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