Genetic code variations in mitochondria: tRNA as a major determinant of genetic code plasticity.

doi:10.1007/s002390010221

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Genetic code variations in mitochondria: tRNA as a major determinant of genetic code plasticity.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 2000

Yokobori S, Suzuki T, Watanabe K

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Characteristic features of tRNA such as the anticodon sequence and modified nucleotides in the anticodon loop are thought to be crucial effectors for promoting or restricting codon reassignment. Our recent findings on basepairing rules between anticodon and codon in various metazoan mitochondria suggest that the complete loss of a codon is not necessarily essential for codon reassignment to take place. We...

Topics

Animals
Anticodon
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Code
Genetic Variation
Humans
Models, Genetic
RNA
RNA, Mitochondrial
RNA, Transfer

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PMID: 11675591
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010221

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