Secondary structure adventures with Carl Woese
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Secondary structure adventures with Carl Woese
Not long after my arrival at UCSC as an assistant professor, I came across Carl Woese's paper "Molecular Mechanics of Translation: A Reciprocating Ratchet Mechanism." (1) In the days before the crystal structure of tRNA was known, Fuller and Hodgson (2) had proposed two alternative conformations for its anticodon loop; one was stacked on the 3' side (as later found in the crystal structure) and...
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عنوان ژورنال: RNA Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1547-6286,1555-8584
DOI: 10.4161/rna.27970