Review article

Croatian School on tRNA and Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases

Ivana Weygand-Đurašević

Abstract

Studies on transfer RNAs, as amino acid adapters in protein biosynthesis, and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, as enzymes that catalyze specific aminoacylation reactions, started in Croatia in the laboratory of Professor Željko Kučan in the early 1970s. This paper is an overview of the approaches and ideas that kept many of his collaborators on the same track for several decades.

Keywords

tRNA; aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase; Electron Spin Resonance (ESR); spin-labeling; spermine binding; conformational changes

Hrčak ID:

36

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/36

Publication date:

15.9.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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