Molecular Biology of the Transfer RNA Revisited

• Main Author: Akio Kanai (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); molecular biology; pre-tRNA processing; transfer RNA; base modification; new biological functions; gene diversity; human diseases; molecular evolution
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are one of the classical non-coding RNAs whose lengths are approximately 70-100 bases. The secondary structure of tRNAs can be represented as the cloverleaf with 4 stems, and the three dimensional structure as an "L" shape. Historically, the basic function of tRNA as...