tRNA structure goes from L to lambda.
In this issue of Cell, Ishitani et al. (2003) report, in a crystal, a new L-like structure of tRNA designated as lambda-form, where disruption of universal tertiary interactions is compensated by interactions with an enzyme that makes a base modification at the corner of the L.
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