The transfer RNA identity problem: a search for rules
Abstract
Correct recognition of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases is central to the maintenance of translational fidelity. The hypothesis that synthetases recognize anticodon nucleotides was proposed in 1964 and had considerable experimental support by the mid-1970s. Nevertheless, the idea was not widely accepted until relatively recently in part because the methodologies initially available for examining tRNA recognition proved hampering for adequately testing alternative hypotheses. Implementation of new technologies has led to a reasonably complete picture of how tRNAs are recognized. The anticodon is indeed important for 17 of the 20 Escherichia coli isoaccepting groups. For many of the isoaccepting groups, the acceptor stem or position 73 (or both) is important as well.
Additional Information
© 1994 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 17 March 1993; accepted 15 October 1993. We thank H. Pelka, L. Pallanck, S. Li, and M. Pak of LaDonne H. Schulman's laboratory for their careful reading of earlier drafts of this article and for providing unpublished results; along with S. Brunie, R. Giegé, L. L. Kisselev, W. H. McClain, U. L. RajBhandary, P. Schimmel, D. Söll, O. C. Uhlenbeck, and M. Yarus, who were contemporaries of L. H. Schulman, for their invaluable insights about the development of the tRNA recognition field; and S. Cusack, F. Gould, J. Hey, H. Himeno, E. T. Peterson, M. Shimizu, and T. A. Steitz for their comments. Supported by NIH grant GM 48560.Additional details
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- 52435
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- 10.1126/science.7506844
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20141205-111120448
- GM 48560
- NIH
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