Amber suppression in mammalian cells dependent upon expression of an Escherichia coli aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase gene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 907-913

  Drabkin, Harold J ^a   Park, Ho Jin ^a   Rajbhandary, Uttam L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030029337     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.3.907     Document Type: Article

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