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Reconstitution of Alanine Acceptor Activity from Fragments of Yeast tRNAAlaII

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Fragments of the stem of yeast tRNAAlaII are by themselves able to load alanine. The loading is specific for alanine, and the results imply that the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase recognition site may be in the tRNA stem region.

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    NOBUMASA IMURA, GARY B. WEISS & ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

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IMURA, N., WEISS, G. & CHAMBERS, R. Reconstitution of Alanine Acceptor Activity from Fragments of Yeast tRNAAlaII. Nature 222, 1147–1148 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221147a0

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