Determinants of tRNA editing and modification: Avoiding conundrums, affecting function

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-274

  Paris, Zdeněk ^a   Fleming, Ian M C ^a   Alfonzo, Juan D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Editing; Mitochondria; Modification; Post transcriptional; Processing; TRNA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CYTOSINE; INOSINE; TRANSFER RNA; URIDINE;

DEAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 84860361133     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.10.009     Document Type: Review

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