The absence of A-to-I editing in the anticodon of plant cytoplasmic tRNAArgACG demands a relaxation of the wobble decoding rules

RNA Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1239-1246

  Aldinger, Carolin A ^a   Leisinger, Anne Katrin ^a   Gaston, Kirk W ^b   Limbach, Patrick A ^b   Igloi, Gabor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Deaminase; Decoding; Inosine; Mitochondrial tRNA import; Plant; Wobble hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868256656     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.21839     Document Type: Article

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