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The Protein Synthesis Machinery

The two-dimensional cloverleaf structure of a typical tRNA.

The two-dimensional cloverleaf structure of a typical tRNA.

All tRNAs, regardless of the species they come from or the amino acid they carry, self-basepair to produce a cloverleaf structure of four main stems and three main loops. The amino acid carried by the tRNA is covalently attached to the nucleotide at the 3' end of the tRNA, known as the tRNA's acceptor arm. The opposite end of the folded tRNA has the anticodon loop where the tRNA will basepair to the mRNA codon.

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