Unconventional decoding of the AUA codon as methionine by mitochondrial tRNAMet with the anticodon f5CAU as revealed with a mitochondrial in vitro translation system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1616-1627

  Takemoto, Chie ^a,d   Spremulli, Linda L ^b   Benkowski, Lisa A ^b   Ueda, Takuya ^a   Yokogawa, Takashi ^c   Watanabe, Kimitsuna ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; ANTICODON; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CODON; CODON, INITIATOR; CYTIDINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHIONINE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER, MET;

BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 63249103619     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp001     Document Type: Article

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