Human mitochondrial trnas: Biogenesis, function, structural aspects, and diseases

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2011, Pages 299-329

  Suzuki, Tsutomu ^a   Nagao, Asuteka ^a   Suzuki, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; MELAS; MERRF; Mitochondrial disease; Mitochondrial tRNA; TRNA modifying enzymes

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TAURINE; THIOURIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL; URIDINE;

ALKALOSIS; AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CODON; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER FAILURE; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; MITOCHONDRION; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RNA TRANSLATION; SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STROKE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; AMINOACYLATION; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; THIOURIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URIDINE;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80755169463     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132531     Document Type: Article

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