Protein secondary structural types are differentially coded on messenger RNA

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1973-1983

  Thanaraj, T A ^a,b,c   Argos, Patrick ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alpha helices; beta strands; codon usage; coils; protein folding; translation speed

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029908504     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560051003     Document Type: Article

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