Functional effects of mutating the closing G·A base-pair of a conserved hairpin loop in 23 S ribosomal RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 407-411

  Xu, Wenbing ^a   Murgola, Emanuel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional lethality; G A base pair; Large subunit ribosomal RNA; Nonsense suppression; Peptide chain termination

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0030573024     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0649     Document Type: Editorial

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