Unusual effect of clusters of rare arginine (AGG) codons on the expression of human interferon α1 gene in Escherichia coli

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 659-666

  Ivanov, Ivan G ^a   Saraffova, Adriana A ^a   Abouhaidar, Mounir G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpha 1; Arginine codons; Codon usage; Gene expression; Genetic code; Human interferon; Rare codons

Indexed keywords

HUMAN INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ARGININE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I, RECOMBINANT; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 0030996025     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-2725(96)00161-6     Document Type: Article

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