RNA tetraplex as a primordial peptide synthesis scaffold

BioSystems

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-150

  Umehara, Takuya ^a   Kitagawa, Takahiro ^a   Nakazawa, Yu ^a   Yoshino, Hinako ^a   Nemoto, Ryohei ^a   Tamura, Koji ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minihelix; Peptide bond formation; RNA tetraplex; TRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL BONDING; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PEPTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TETRAPLEX;

EID: 84863480961     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: 18728324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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