Translating organellar glutamine codons: A case by case scenario?

RNA Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-34

  Frechin, Mathieu ^a   Duchêne, Anne Marie ^b   Becker, Hubert Dominique ^a,c  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

AdT; Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Chloroplast; Glutaminyl tRNA synthetase; Glutamyl tRNA synthetase; Mitochondria; tRNA dependent amidotransferase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; TRANSFER RNA;

CELL ORGANELLE; CODON; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 62549154089     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.6.1.7564     Document Type: Review

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