On the mechanism of leftward frameshifting at several hungry codons

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 676-684

  Barak, Zeev ^a   Lindsley, Dale ^b   Gallant, Jonathan ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Frameshifting; Hungry codons; Peptidyl slippage; Ribosome; Simultaneous slippage

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030010052     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0117     Document Type: Article

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