On origin of genetic code and tRNA before translation

Biology Direct

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rodin, Andrei S ^a,b   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

AMINO ACID; APTAMER; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CODON; CONFORMATION; DIMERIZATION; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTICODON; APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CODON; DIMERIZATION; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; GENETIC CODE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 79951797073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-14     Document Type: Article

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