Programmed translational frameshifting

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 507-528

  Farabaugh, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative decoding; morphogenesis; translational errors; translational hop

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURAL GENE;

FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030457112     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.507     Document Type: Review

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