A conditional-lethal translation termination defect in a sup45 mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 245, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 557-563

  Stansfield, Ian ^a   Kushnirov, Vitaly V ^b   Jones, Kerrie M ^a   Tuite, Mick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL CARDIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

conditional lethal mutant; eukaryotic release factor; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; SUP45; translation termination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUNGUS MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOP CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030957794     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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