Beyond the Frozen Accident: Glycine Assignment in the Genetic Code

Proline Might Have Been the First Amino Acid in the Primitive Genetic Code

(2014) Reina Komatsu et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Genetic Code Evolution Started with the Incorporation of Glycine, Followed by Other Small Hydrophilic Amino Acids

(2014) Harold S. Bernhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Functional Substitution of a Eukaryotic Glycyl-tRNA Synthetase with an Evolutionarily Unrelated Bacterial Cognate Enzyme

(2014) Chin-I Chien et al.   PLoS One

Crystal Structures and Enzymatic Properties of a Triamine/Agmatine Aminopropyltransferase from Thermus thermophilus

(2011) Mio Ohnuma et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The transition from noncoded to coded protein synthesis: did coding mRNAs arise from stability-enhancing binding partners to tRNA?

(2010) Harold Bernhardt et al.   Biology Direct

Evidence from glycine transfer RNA of a frozen accident at the dawn of the genetic code

(2008) Harold S Bernhardt et al.   Biology Direct

tRNAdb 2009: compilation of tRNA sequences and tRNA genes

(2008) F. Juhling et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH