Kinetics of tRNA folding monitored by aminoacylation

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 569-580

  Bhaskaran, Hari ^a   Rodriguez Hernandez, Annia ^a   Perona, John J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Post transcriptional modification; RNA folding; RNA stability

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MAGNESIUM ION; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

EID: 84857420811     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.030080.111     Document Type: Article

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