Schematic representation of A) secondary and
B) tertiary structure of tRNA. Tertiary structure is based on
the backbone of yeast tRNAAsp as in pdb model 1VTQ (Moras et al., 1980). The main parts of tRNA
are highlighted in different colors, using darker colors for stems and lighter
colors for loops. Used colors are red: acceptor stem,
blue: deoxyuridine arm, gray: anticodon arm,
cyan: variable arm, green: TΨC arm and
orange: segments linking tRNA arms.