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The RNA acetyltransferase driven by ATP hydrolysis synthesizes N4-acetylcytidine of tRNA anticodon.

A self-referential model for the formation of the genetic code.

Phosphoserine aminoacylation of tRNA bearing an unnatural base anticodon

Bringing order to translation: the contributions of transfer RNA anticodon-domain modifications.

Modified uridines with C5-methylene substituents at the first position of the tRNA anticodon stabilize U.G wobble pairing during decoding.

Degeneracy of the genetic code and stability of the base pair at the second position of the anticodon.

Anticodon domain modifications contribute order to tRNA for ribosome-mediated codon binding.

Analysis of genomic tRNA sets from Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya points to anticodon-codon hydrogen bonds as a major determinant of tRNA compositional variations.

Eukaryotic wobble uridine modifications promote a functionally redundant decoding system.

Recognition of tRNALeu by Aquifex aeolicus leucyl-tRNA synthetase during the aminoacylation and editing steps.

A new kinetic model reveals the synergistic effect of E-, P- and A-sites on +1 ribosomal frameshifting.

An extensive study of mutation and selection on the wobble nucleotide in tRNA anticodons in fungal mitochondrial genomes.

Whence the genetic code? Thawing the 'frozen accident'.

Divergence of selenocysteine tRNA recognition by archaeal and eukaryotic O-phosphoseryl-tRNASec kinase.

tRNA's modifications bring order to gene expression.

On the origin of the genetic code: signatures of its primordial complementarity in tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

Queuine promotes antioxidant defence system by activating cellular antioxidant enzyme activities in cancer.

Four-base codon-mediated saturation mutagenesis in a cell-free translation system.

Kluyveromyces lactis gamma-toxin, a ribonuclease that recognizes the anticodon stem loop of tRNA.

It's a mod mod tRNA world.