Ribosome-mediated translational pause and protein domain organization

Protein Science

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1594-1612

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

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

codon usage; domain linkers; peptide channel; protein folding; ribosome; translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030018101     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560050814     Document Type: Article

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