tRNA acceptor stem and anticodon bases form independent codes related to protein folding

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7489-7494

  Carter, Charles W ^a   Wolfenden, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases; Genetic code; Multivariate regression; Protein folding; Urzymes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CYCLOHEXANE; TRANSFER RNA; WATER; ANTICODON;

AMINOACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURFACE AREA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER TEMPERATURE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANTICODON; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, TRANSFER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84922035501     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1507569112     Document Type: Article

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