Gene expression evidence indicates that nucleotides 507-513 and 1434-1440 in 16S rRNA are organized in close proximity on the Escherichia coli 30S ribosomal subunit

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 10-14

  Kaloyanova, Dora ^a   Xu, Jianhua ^b   Ivanov, Ivan G ^a   Abouhaidar, Mounir G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene expression; mRNA binding site; Ribosome structure; Ribosome binding site; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; START CODON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYTOLACCACEAE;

EID: 0030845599     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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