Cutting, dicing, healing and sealing: The molecular surgery of tRNA

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 337-349

  Lopes, Raphael R S ^a   Kessler, Alan C ^b   Polycarpo, Carla ^a   Alfonzo, Juan D ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIA; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EUKARYOTE; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICING DEFECT; YEAST; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ENDONUCLEASES; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, TRANSFER; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84927913767     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1279     Document Type: Review

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