Do all modifications benefit all tRNAs?

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 265-271

  Phizicky, Eric M ^a   Alfonzo, Juan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation; Editing; Methylation; Modification; Thiolation; tRNA

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; YEAST;

RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 71549130107     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.049     Document Type: Review

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