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Role of tRNA amino acid-accepting end in aminoacylation and its quality control.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Nov 2011
Zhou Xiao-Long, Du Dao-Hai, Tan Min, Lei Hui-Yan, Ruan Liang-Liang, Eriani Gilbert, Wang En-Duo
Abstract excerpt
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are remarkable enzymes that are in charge of the accurate recognition and ligation of amino acids and tRNA molecules. The greatest difficulty in accurate aminoacylation appears to be in discriminating between highly similar amino acids. To reduce mischarging of tRNAs by non-cognate amino acids, aaRSs have evolved an editing activity in a second active site to cleave the...
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