The natural history of transfer RNA and its interactions with the ribosome

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Caetano Anollés, Gustavo ^a   Sun, Feng Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Non coding RNA; Origin of life; Phylogenetic analysis; Ribosome; Sequence; Structure; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905641536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00127     Document Type: Article

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