One ancestor for two codes viewed from the perspective of two complementary modes of tRNA aminoacylation

Biology Direct

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rodin, Andrei S ^a   Szathmáry, Eörs ^b,c,d   Rodin, Sergei N ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^c Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking   (Germany)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

EID: 65349164271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-4     Document Type: Article

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