Decoding the translational termination signal: The polypeptide chain release factor in Escherichia coli crosslinks to the base following the stop codon

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 974-982

  Poole, Elizabeth S ^a   Brimacombe, Richard ^a,b   Tate, Warren P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Molecular mimicry; Release factor 2; Site directed crosslinking; Termination complex

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BINDING SITES; CODON, TERMINATOR; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEASE T1; RNA, MESSENGER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030842711     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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