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The Plant Mitochondrial Transfer RNAs Have Three Different Genetic Origins

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Plant Molecular Biology

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIH,volume 81))

Abstract

In mammals and fungi, the mitochondrial (mt) genome contains 22-24 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes and the corresponding tRNA population is sufficient to allow the incorporation of all 20 amino acids into proteins, thanks to a number of unusual codon-anticodon interactions which enable this apparently incomplete tRNA set to read all 61 sense codons (Maréchal-Drouard et al 1992).

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    André Dietrich, Laurence Maréchal-Drouard & Jacques-Henry Weil

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Dietrich, A., Maréchal-Drouard, L., Weil, JH. (1994). The Plant Mitochondrial Transfer RNAs Have Three Different Genetic Origins. In: Coruzzi, G., Puigdomènech, P. (eds) Plant Molecular Biology. NATO ASI Series, vol 81. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78852-9_32

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