Escherichia coli is capable of utilizing an in vitro generated minihelix consisting of the
anticodon stem and loop sequence of E. coli tRNA Tyr (Curnow, AW, Kung, FL, Koch, KA,
and Garcia, GA (1993) Biochemistry 32, 5239-5246). This suggests that the tRNA structural
motifs necessary for recognition comprise a loop at the end of a short helix. To gain further
insight into the structural requirements for TGT recognition, we have investigated the …