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. 1971 Mar;68(3):641–644. doi: 10.1073/pnas.68.3.641

Specific Transformylation of One Methionyl-tRNA from Cotton Seeding Chloroplasts by Endogenous and Escherichia coli Transformylases

William C Merrick 1, L S Dure III 1,*
PMCID: PMC389007  PMID: 5276774

Abstract

Two isoaccepting chloroplastic and one cytoplasmic tRNAMet species have been separated from germinating cotton cotyledons. The methionylated form of one of the chloroplastic species (but none of the other or of the cytoplasmic tRNAMet) can be formylated either by an endogenous transformylase or by Escherichia coli transformylase.

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