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Structural Studies on a Tyrosine tRNA Precursor

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Modification experiments strongly suggest that the clover leaf scheme for tRNA is the basic configuration adopted by tRNA precursors before maturation.

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CHANG, S., SMITH, J. Structural Studies on a Tyrosine tRNA Precursor. Nature New Biology 246, 165–168 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio246165a0

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