Figure 1. Tertiary molecular structure of transfer RNA from yeast which encodes the amino acid phenylalanine. (IMAGE)

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Figure 1. Tertiary molecular structure of transfer RNA from yeast which encodes the amino acid phenylalanine.

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The folded structure consists of a sequence of loop and stem regions. The phosphate-sugar backbone is shown as a blue ribbon to which the nucleobases, shown as molecular structures, are attached. The anticodon loop serves for reading the information which is provided by a messenger RNA and used for synthesizing proteins at the acceptor stem. Contact ion pairs are formed preferentially at the sites M1 to M8.

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