This track shows transfer RNA (tRNA) in the functional RNA database [1].
| Description provided by Sequence Ontology (SO): |
| Transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules are approximately 80 nucleotides in length. Their secondary structure includes four short double-helical elements and three loops (D, anti-codon, and T loops). Further hydrogen bonds mediate the characteristic L-shaped molecular structure. Transfer RNAs have two regions of fundamental functional importance: the anti-codon, which is responsible for specific mRNA codon recognition, and the 3' end, to which the tRNA's corresponding amino acid is attached (by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases). Transfer RNAs cope with the degeneracy of the genetic code in two manners: having more than one tRNA (with a specific anti-codon) for a particular amino acid; and 'wobble' base-pairing, i.e. permitting non-standard base-pairing at the 3rd anti-codon position. |
Short sequences (shorter than 30nt) are aligned to genome by SeqMap [2] with 0 mismatch, no-gap and no-repeat.
Other sequences are aligned to genome by BLAT [3] with identity>=99, coverage>=90 and no-repeat.
[1] Kin T, Yamada K, Terai G, Okida H, Yoshinari Y, Ono Y, Kojima A, Kimura Y, Komori T, Asai K.
fRNAdb: a platform for mining/annotating functional RNA candidates from non-coding RNA sequences.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D145-8.
[2] Jiang H, Wong WH
SeqMap: mapping massive amount of oligonucleotides to the genome.
Bioinformatics. 2008 Oct 15;24(20):2395-6. Epub 2008 Aug 12.
[3] Kent WJ.
BLAT--the BLAST-like alignment tool.
Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64.