Agmatidine, a modified cytidine in the anticodon of archaeal tRNA Ile, base pairs with adenosine but not with guanosine

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2872-2877

  Mandal, Debabrata ^a   Köhrer, Caroline ^a   Su, Dan ^b   Russell, Susan P ^c   Krivos, Kady ^c   Castleberry, Colette M ^c   Blum, Paul ^d   Limbach, Patrick A ^c   Söll, Dieter ^b   RajBhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Decoding; Rna modification; Trna; Wobble pairing

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AGMATIDINE; AGMATINE; AMINE; CYTIDINE; GUANOSINE; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; NUCLEOSIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE A; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTICODON; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHANOCOCCUS MARIPALUDIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARAENSIS;

AGMATINE; ANTICODON; BASE PAIRING; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CYTIDINE; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; METHANOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RNA, TRANSFER, ILE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; METHANOCOCCUS MARIPALUDIS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 77649263055     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914869107     Document Type: Article

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