Ribosome stalling is responsible for arginine-specific translational attenuation in Neurospora crassa

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 4904-4913

  Wang, Zhong ^a   Sachs, Matthew S ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; START CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0030745618     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.9.4904     Document Type: Article

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