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tRNA

American  

abbreviation

  1. transfer RNA.


tRNA Scientific  
  1. Abbreviation of transfer RNA


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The team's genome and transcriptome analysis also identified suppressor tRNA genes that match the reassigned codons, supporting the conclusion that the organism truly reads these former stop signals as amino acids.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

So his group is also hard at work on altering the ribosome itself, by making systematic mutations that allow it to recognize tRNA codes not found in nature and tolerate amino acids with unusual shapes.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 10, 2024

They also tagged each tRNA with an mRNA sequence of the altered enzymes able to load the amino acids, and tracked which ones worked out of the mix of millions.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 10, 2024

"The tRNA neochromosome is the world's first completely de novo synthetic chromosome," says Cai.

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023

Depending on the species, 40 to 60 types of tRNA exist in the cytoplasm.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

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