The A1 x U72 base pair conserved in eukaryotic initiator tRNAs is important specifically for binding to the eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF2.

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Published in Mol Cell Biol on August 01, 1996

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D Farruggio1, J Chaudhuri, U Maitra, U L RajBhandary

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1: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA.

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