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Tertiary structure of tRNA

The two lateral loops fold back on each other to form an "L" shape. This allows the aminoacyl tRNA synthetase to bind both the anticodon loop [above ]and the amino acceptor stem [below].

Figures  © 2000 by Griffiths et al.  and  ©1997 by Klug & Cummings; text © 2011 by Steven M. Carr