Losing the stem-loop structure from metazoan mitochondrial trnas and co-evolution of interacting factors

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages 1-1

  Watanabe, Yoh ichi ^a   Suematsu, Takuma ^a,c   Ohtsuki, Takashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl trna synthetase; D arm; Elongation factor Tu; Mitochondrial trna; Ribosome; T arm; Trna nucleotidyltransferase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905640830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00109     Document Type: Review

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