The transition from noncoded to coded protein synthesis: Did coding mRNAs arise from stability-enhancing binding partners to tRNA?

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bernhardt, Harold S ^a   Tate, Warren P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 77950675706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-16     Document Type: Article

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