William H. McClain

Changing the Identity of a tRNA by Introducing a G-U Wobble Pair Near the 3′ Acceptor End

William H. McClain, K. Foss · Science · 1988 · 344 citations

Model Substrates for an RNA Enzyme

William H. McClain, Cecilia Guerrier-Takada, Sidney Altman · Science · 1987 · 269 citations

Model Substrates, Rna Processing, Smallest Trna Precursor +13

Changing the Acceptor Identity of a Transfer RNA by Altering Nucleotides in a "Variable Pocket"

William H. McClain, K. Foss · Science · 1988 · 133 citations

Genetics, Molecular Biology, Escherichia Coli +18

Cleavage of tRNA precursors by the RNA subunit of E. coli ribonuclease P (M1 RNA) is influenced by 3′-proximal CCA in the substrates

Cecilia Guerrier-Takada, William H. McClain, Sidney Altman · Cell · 1984 · 116 citations

Trna Precursors, Biochemistry, Natural Sciences +8

Nucleotides that determine Escherichia coli tRNA(Arg) and tRNA(Lys) acceptor identities revealed by analyses of mutant opal and amber suppressor tRNAs.

William H. McClain, K. Foss, Robert A. Jenkins et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1990 · 103 citations · Full text

Genetics, Amber Suppressor Trnas, Molecular Biology +17