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Genetic code ambiguity. Cell viability related to the severity of editing defects in mutant tRNA synthetases.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 29 Nov 2002
Nangle Leslie A, De Crecy Lagard Valerie, Doring Volker, Schimmel Paul
Abstract excerpt
The rules of the genetic code are established in reactions that aminoacylate tRNAs with specific amino acids. Ambiguity in the code is prevented by editing activities whereby incorrect aminoacylations are cleared by specialized hydrolytic reactions of aminoacyl tRNA synthetases. Whereas editing reactions have long been known, their significance for cell viability is still poorly understood. Here we investigated...
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