Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Translation of non-standard codon nucleotides reveals minimal requirements for codon-anticodon interactions

  • Thomas Philipp Hoernes,
  • Klaus Faserl,
  • Michael Andreas Juen,
  • Johannes Kremser,
  • Catherina Gasser,
  • Elisabeth Fuchs,
  • Xinying Shi,
  • Aaron Siewert,
  • Herbert Lindner,
  • Christoph Kreutz,
  • Ronald Micura,
  • Simpson Joseph,
  • Claudia Höbartner,
  • Eric Westhof,
  • Alexander Hüttenhofer,
  • Matthias David Erlacher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07321-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The recognition of the mRNA codon by the tRNA anticodon is crucial for protein synthesis. Here the authors introduce non-standard nucleotides in bacterial and eukaryotic mRNA to reveal the minimal hydrogen bond requirement of codon-anticodon interaction for efficient and accurate translation.