Role of the three consecutive G:C base pairs conserved in the anticodon stem of initiator tRNAs in initiation of protein synthesis in Escherichia coli

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 473-482

  Mandal, Nripendranath ^a   Mangroo, Dev ^a   Dalluge, Joseph J ^c   McCloskey, James A ^b,c   RajBhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

anticodon; G:C base pairs; initiator tRNAs; protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BASE PAIRING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA ANALYSIS;

ACYLATION; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0029904026     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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