Saturation of recognition elements blocks evolution of new tRNA identities

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Saint Léger, Adélaïde ^a   Bello, Carla ^b,c   Dans, Pablo D ^a   Torres, Adrian Gabriel ^a   Novoa, Eva Maria ^a,d,e   Camacho, Noelia ^a   Orozco, Modesto ^a,f   Kondrashov, Fyodor A ^b,c,g   De Pouplana, Lluís Ribas ^a,g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS;

CURRENT COMPLEXITY; IDENTITY ELEMENTS; NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECOGNITION ELEMENT; RECOGNITION SIGNALS; SPECIFIC RECOGNITION; TRANSFER RNAS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

TRANSFER RNA;

CONFORMATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 85014918625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501860     Document Type: Article

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