Depletion in the levels of the release factor eRF1 causes a reduction in the efficiency of translation termination in yeast

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1135-1143

  Stansfield, Ian ^a   Eurwilaichitr, Lily ^a   Akhmaloka, ^a,b   Tuite, Mick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST;

ALLELES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029992246     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02634.x     Document Type: Article

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