1. The history that brought it all alive

   • Umesh Varshney

   Foreword Pages: 437 - 438

2. Early days of tRNA research: Discovery, function, purification and sequence analysis

   • Uttam L. RajBhandary
   • Caroline Köhrer

   Articles Pages: 439 - 451

3. The crystal structure of tRNA

   • Brian F. C. Clark

   Articles Pages: 453 - 457

4. The genetic code - Thawing the ‘frozen accident’

   • Dieter Söll
   • Uttam L. RajBhandary

   Articles Pages: 459 - 463

5. The discovery of modified nucleosides from the early days to the present: A personal perspective

   • Susumu Nishimura
   • Kimitsuna Watanabe

   Articles Pages: 465 - 475

6. The early history of tRNA recognition by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

   • Richard Giegé

   Articles Pages: 477 - 488

7. Chemistry of aminoacylation and peptide bond formation on the 3′terminus of tRNA

   • Mathias Sprinzl

   Articles Pages: 489 - 496