Effects of tRNA modification on translational accuracy depend on intrinsic codon-anticodon strength

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1871-1881

  Manickam, Nandini ^a   Joshi, Kartikeya ^a   Bhatt, Monika J ^a   Farabaugh, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUEUOSINE; TRANSFER RNA; ANTICODON; CODON;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL MODIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATIONAL MISREADING ERROR FREQUENCY; GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING;

ANTICODON; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84960480805     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1506     Document Type: Article

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