Biological evidence for the world's smallest tRNAs

Biochimie

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 151-158

  Wende, Sandra ^a   Platzer, Edward G ^b   Jühling, Frank ^a   Pütz, Joern ^c   Florentz, Catherine ^c   Stadler, Peter F ^a,d,e,f,g,h   Mörl, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Armless tRNA; CCA addition; Enoplea; Mitochondria; Processing; tRNA structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; ENOPLIDA; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; ROMANOMERMIS CULICIVORAX;

ENOPLEA; MERMITHIDA; ROMANOMERMIS CULICIVORAX;

ARMLESS TRNA; CCA ADDITION; ENOPLEA; MITOCHONDRIA; PROCESSING; TRNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MERMITHOIDEA; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84897098160     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2013.07.034     Document Type: Article

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