The Genetic Code Revisited Four Decades after Francis Crick
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The genetic code revisited--four decades after Francis Crick.
The ancient essential process of ribosomal protein synthesis requires twenty sets of aminoacyl-tRNAs (aa-tRNAs), one for each canonical amino acid. Since Crick proposed his adaptor hypothesis (1) it was commonly accepted that all organisms possess twenty aaRSs, each enzyme specific for attaching one amino acid to tRNA. It is now clear that aa-tRNA formation is more varied, as the biosynthetic r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Symposium Series
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0261-3166,1746-8272
DOI: 10.1093/nass/nrm007