Structural Studies on Transfer RNA: Preliminary Crystallographic Analysis

Mindaugas Labanauskas, Peter G. Connors, James D. Young, Robert M. Bock, J. W. Anderegg, W. W. Beeman

Science · 1969 · 23 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Single-crystal diffraction patterns from Escherichia coli leucine tRNA and yeast formylmethionine tRNA show a tetragonal lattice for the former, with a = 46 angstroms and c = 137 angstroms, and a hexagonal lattice for the latter, with a = 115 angstroms and c = 137 angstroms. Initial analysis suggests a molecule with a long, double helix parallel to the c-axis for both crystals.

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