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23S rRNA similarity from selection for peptidyl transferase mimicry

scientific article published on June 1997

5'-RNA self-capping from guanosine diphosphate

scientific article published in June 1997

A Calcium−Metalloribozyme with Autodecapping and Pyrophosphatase Activities ⬇️

scientific article published on November 18, 1997

A Tetrahymena intron nucleotide connected to the GTP/arginine site

scientific article

A diminutive and specific RNA binding site for L-tryptophan

scientific article

A membrane transporter for tryptophan composed of RNA

scientific article

A more complex isoleucine aptamer with a cognate triplet

scientific article

A ribonucleotide Origin for Life--fluctuation and near-ideal reactions

scientific article (publication date: February 2013)

A simple and sensitive in vivo luciferase assay for tRNA-mediated nonsense suppression

scientific article

A specific amino acid binding site composed of RNA.

scientific article published in June 1988

A tiny RNA that catalyzes both aminoacyl-RNA and peptidyl-RNA synthesis

scientific article published on November 1999

A twisted tRNA intermediate sets the threshold for decoding

scientific article published on April 2003

Abundance of correctly folded RNA motifs in sequence space, calculated on computational grids

scientific article

Actions of the anticodon arm in translation on the phenotypes of RNA mutants

scientific article published in November 1986

Acyl-CoAs from coenzyme ribozymes

scientific article

Affinity selection-amplification from randomized ribooligonucleotide pools

scientific article published in January 1996

Ahead and behind: a small, small RNA world

scientific article published on April 2015

Amber suppression relaxes stringent control by elongating stringent factor

scholarly article by Linda Breeden published in January 1982

Amino Acids as RNA Ligands: A Direct-RNA-Template Theory for the Code's Origin ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

Aminoacyl-RNA synthesis catalyzed by an RNA.

scientific article published on February 1995

An RNA pocket for an aliphatic hydrophobe

scientific article published in May 1994

An RNA pocket for the planar aromatic side chains of phenylalanine and tryptophane.

scientific article published in January 1995

An RNA-amino acid complex and the origin of the genetic code

scientific article published on February 1991

An axial binding site in the Tetrahymena precursor RNA ⬇️

scientific article published on December 20, 1991

An inhibitor of ribosomal peptidyl transferase using transition-state analogy

scientific article published on January 1995

Analysis of the role of phosphate oxygens in the group I intron from Tetrahymena

scientific article published on December 5, 1992

Analyzing partially randomized nucleic acid pools: straight dope on doping

scientific article

Artificial Selection: Finding Function amongst Randomized Sequences

article

Bar to normal UGA translation by the selenocysteine tRNA

scientific article published on January 5, 1992

Base substitutions in the tRNA anticodon arm do not degrade the accuracy of reading frame maintenance

scientific article published on September 1986

BayesFold: rational 2 degrees folds that combine thermodynamic, covariation, and chemical data for aligned RNA sequences

scientific article

Binding and disruption of phospholipid bilayers by supramolecular RNA complexes

scientific article published on 26 June 2001

Biochemical Refinement Before Genetics: Chance Utility

scientific article published on September 2016

Boundaries for an RNA world

scientific article

Chemical biology: bring them back alive

scientific article published in November 2005

Chiral histidine selection by D-ribose RNA.

scientific article

Co-optimization of ribozyme substrate stacking and l-arginine binding ⬇️

scientific article published on June 20, 1992

Codon contexts from weakly expressed genes reduce expression in vivo

scientific article published in October 1989

Coenzymes as coribozymes

scientific article

Construction of a composite tRNA gene by anticodon loop transplant ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1980

Construction of a systematic set of tRNA mutants by ligation of synthetic oligonucleotides into defined single-stranded gaps.

scientific article

Cross-backbone templating; ribodinucleotides made on poly(C)

scientific article

Darwinian Behavior in a Cold, Sporadically Fed Pool of Ribonucleotides ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: September 2012)

Defined set of cloned termination suppressors: in vivo activity of isogenetic UAG, UAA, and UGA suppressor tRNAs ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1984

Divalent cations in transfer ribonucleic acid and aminoacyl transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase function and structure ⬇️

scientific article published on May 23, 1972

Diversity of oligonucleotide functions

scientific article published on January 1995

Efficient Heritable Gene Expression Readily Evolves in RNA Pools

scientific article published on July 2017

Eighty routes to a ribonucleotide world; dispersion and stringency in the decisive selection

scholarly article by Michael Yarus published in August 2018

Error Minimization and Coding Triplet/Binding Site Associations Are Independent Features of the Canonical Genetic Code

Finding specific RNA motifs: function in a zeptomole world?

scientific article published in February 2003

Getting past the RNA world: the initial Darwinian ancestor

scientific article

How Mitochondria Redefine the Code

How many catalytic RNAs? Ions and the Cheshire cat conjecture.

scientific article

Human tRNA(Sec) associates with HeLa membranes, cell lipid liposomes, and synthetic lipid bilayers

scientific article

Information, probability, and the abundance of the simplest RNA active sites

scientific article published in May 2008

Interaction of RNA with phospholipid membranes

scientific article published in May 2002

Isolation and properties of a plasmid which expresses the E. coli Su+7 amber suppressor tRNA gene ⬇️

scientific article published on March 5, 1979

Isoleucine:RNA sites with associated coding sequences ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Kinetics at a multifunctional RNA active site

scientific article published in November 1998

Metal coordination sites that contribute to structure and catalysis in the group I intron from Tetrahymena ⬇️

scientific article published on May 4, 1993

Molecular biology. Climbing in 190 dimensions

scientific article published in April 2011

Multiple translational products from a five-nucleotide ribozyme

scientific article

Mutants of Su+7 tRNA include a functional tRNA with an altered T pseudo uracil CG sequence

scientific article published in September 1981

Natural and artificial RNAs occupy the same restricted region of sequence space

scientific article

Natural selection is not required to explain universal compositional patterns in rRNA secondary structure categories

scientific article

Non-Watson-Crick RNA synthesis suited to origin functions

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Nucleotides that are essential but not conserved; a sufficient L-tryptophan site in RNA.

scientific article

On translation by RNAs alone

scientific article

Origins of the genetic code: the escaped triplet theory.

scientific article

Peptidyl transferase: ancient and exiguous

scientific article

Perspectives: protein synthesis. Unraveling the riddle of ProCys tRNA synthetase

scientific article published in January 2000

Phenylalanine-binding RNAs and genetic code evolution

scientific article published in March 2002

Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase and Isoleucyl-tRNA Phe : A Possible Verification Mechanism for Aminoacyl-tRNA ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1972

Poly(U) RNA-templated synthesis of AppA

scientific article

Primordial genetics: phenotype of the ribocyte

scientific article

Proofreading, NTPases and translation: successful increase in specificity ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1992

Pseudoverification of mixed aminoacyl transfer ribonucleic acids. The generality of the process.

scientific article published in October 1973

RNA affinity for molecular L-histidine; genetic code origins

scientific article

RNA as multitude/RNA as one.

scientific article published in December 2003

RNA enzymes with two small-molecule substrates

scientific article

RNA-Catalyzed CoA, NAD, and FAD synthesis from phosphopantetheine, NMN, and FMN.

scientific article

RNA-amino acid binding: a stereochemical era for the genetic code

scientific article

RNA-catalyzed amino acid activation

scientific article published in June 2001

RNA-ligand chemistry: a testable source for the genetic code

scientific article (publication date: April 2000)

RNAs that bind and change the permeability of phospholipid membranes

scientific article published on September 1999

RNAs with dual specificity and dual RNAs with similar specificity

scientific article

Rapid and simple ribozymic aminoacylation using three conserved nucleotides

scientific article published on April 2009

Rates of aminoacyl-tRNA selection at 29 sense codons in vivo.

scientific article published in September 1989

Reading frame selection and transfer RNA anticodon loop stacking

scientific article published in December 1987

Recognition of Nucleotide Sequences ⬇️

scientific article

Relaxation of stable RNA synthesis by a plasmid-borne locus ⬇️

scientific article published on March 5, 1979

Selection of an RNA domain that binds Zn2+

scientific article published on July 1995

Selection of small molecules by the Tetrahymena catalytic center

scientific article published on March 1991

Selection of the simplest RNA that binds isoleucine

scientific article

Self-capping RNA catalysts derived from selection-amplification

scientific article published in June 1999

Sense codons are found in specific contexts.

scientific article

Simple, recurring RNA binding sites for L-arginine

scientific article (publication date: April 2010)

Site-specific mutagenesis of Escherichia coli gltT yields a weak, glutamic acid-inserting ochre suppressor

scientific article published on July 1985

Size, constant sequences, and optimal selection

scientific article

Small RNA-divalent domains.

scientific article published in August 1996

Small aminoacyl transfer centers at GU within a larger RNA.

scientific article

Solvent and specificity. Binding and isoleucylation of phenylalanine transfer ribonucleic acid (Escherichia coli) by isoleucyl transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase from Escherichia coli.

scientific article

Specific RNA binding to ordered phospholipid bilayers

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Specific, rapid synthesis of Phe-RNA by RNA.

scientific article

Specificity of arginine binding by the Tetrahymena intron

scientific article published in February 1989

Stereoselective arginine binding is a phylogenetically conserved property of group I self-splicing RNAs

scientific article

Systematic alterations in the anticodon arm make tRNA(Glu)-Suoc a more efficient suppressor

scientific article published on May 1987

The Genetic Code and RNA-Amino Acid Affinities

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

The Plausibility of RNA-Templated Peptides: Simultaneous RNA Affinity for Adjacent Peptide Side Chains ⬇️

scientific article published on April 27, 2012

The bases of the tRNA anticodon loop are independent by genetic criteria

scientific article published on June 1987

The context effect does not require a fourth base pair

scientific article

The effect of an Escherichia coli regulatory mutation on transfer RNA structure ⬇️

scientific article published on November 25, 1979

The meaning of a minuscule ribozyme ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2011

The purification and sequence of a temperature-sensitive tryptophan tRNA ⬇️

scientific article published on June 25, 1979

The sequence of nucleotides in tRNA Ile from E. coli B.

scientific article published in May 1971

The structure of the DNA containing the E. coli tRNATry gene ⬇️

scientific article published on March 5, 1979

The structure of ϕ80d3 ilv+ Su+7 transducing phage and the origin of its Su+7 tRNA-gene containing fragment ⬇️

scientific article published on March 5, 1979

The translational efficiency of tRNA is a property of the anticodon arm.

scientific article published in August 1986

The variety of intraspecific misacylations carried out by isoleucyl transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase of Escherichia coli

scientific article published in October 1973

Three small ribooligonucleotides with specific arginine sites

scientific article

Transfer RNA mutation and the malleability of the genetic code

scientific article published in February 1994

Transfer RNA selection at the ribosomal A and P sites ⬇️

scientific article published on November 5, 1979

Transfer RNA structure and coding specificity. I. Evidence that a D-arm mutation reduces tRNA dissociation from the ribosome

scientific article published in April 1989

Transfer RNA structure and coding specificity. II. A D-arm tertiary interaction that restricts coding range

scientific article published in April 1989

Translation termination: a ghost ballet?

scientific article published in October 2001

Ultraviolet sensitivity of the biological activity of phi-X-174 virus, single-stranded DNA, and RF DNA.

scientific article published on May 1967

Use of tRNA suppressors to probe regulation of Escherichia coli release factor 2.

scientific article published in September 1988

Versatile 5′ phosphoryl coupling of small and large molecules to an RNA ⬇️

scientific article published on August 19, 1997

Visualization of membrane RNAs ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

tRNA Creation by Hairpin Duplication

tRNA identity: a hair of the dogma that bit us.

scientific article published on December 1988

tRNA structure and ribosomal function. I. tRNA nucleotide 27-43 mutations enhance first position wobble

scientific article published in February 1994

tRNA structure and ribosomal function. II. Interaction between anticodon helix and other tRNA mutations

scientific article published in February 1994

tRNA-tRNA interactions within cellular ribosomes

scientific article

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