PNAS 84(2), 334–338 (1987), DOI 10.1073/pnas.84.2.334. Primary indexed abstract and initial-only bylines B L Seong and U L RajBhandary verified; no expansion inferred. Anticodon-stem substitutions followed by purification, aminoacylation/formylation, AUG-dependent ribosomal P-site binding, initiation-factor binding and in-vitro protein-synthesis measurements. Full-text repository: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC304201/ .
Verified locator: Named heading and Research Summary; Key Publications explicitly link Uttam RajBhandary to RajBhandary, UL. Portrait link RajBhandary_Big.jpeg is labeled Uttam RajBhandary; direct image browser returned cache miss. No expansion of middle initial or dates inferred.