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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2006 May 16;45(19):5939–5948. doi: 10.1021/bi060183n

1. Base-catalyzed isomerization of aminoacyl tRNAs.

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When the vicinal hydroxyl of an aminoacyl tRNA nucleophilically attacks the neighboring ester linkage, the amino acid can be transferred to the attacking hydroxyl.