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tRNA—A Treasury of Stereochemical Information

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Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure

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tRNA is one of the best and most thoroughly studied biological macro-molecules. Its structure-function relationships have been summarized in many books and articles (164,1027–1038), its spectroscopic behavior has been described with special reference to dynamical aspects (1027), and the thermodynamics of conformational transitions have been extensively investigated (449,554,1027,1028,1039,1040). Because discussing all of the structure-function aspects of tRNA would lead too far astray, the reader is referred to the cited literature and we focus on the questions of immediate structural interest: the primary, secondary, and tertiary structure of tRNA, the stabilization of the helical and looped domains by base stacking and base-pairing, the conformations of the nucleotides, and tRNA-metal ion interactions.

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Saenger, W. (1984). tRNA—A Treasury of Stereochemical Information. In: Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure. Springer Advanced Texts in Chemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5190-3_15

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