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. 1975 Dec;72(12):4866–4870. doi: 10.1073/pnas.72.12.4866

Hydrogen bonding in yeast phenylalanine transfer RNA.

G J Quigley, A H Wang, N C Seeman, F L Suddath, A Rich, J L Sussman, S H Kim
PMCID: PMC388833  PMID: 1108007

Abstract

Further analysis of the three-dimensional electron density map of yeast phenylalanine tRNA is presented. Attention is focused on the several types of unique hydrogen bonding that are found in the molecule and a number of sections of the electron density map are presented. These sections are compared with an electron density map of a dinucleoside phosphate. The bases in the helical stem regions are all involved in Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding interactions with the exception of the guanine-uracil base pair. Several additional tertiary hydrogen bonding interactions are described.

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