Regulation of the Escherichia coli tna operon: Nascent leader peptide control at the tnaC stop codon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1774-1779

  Konan, Kouacou Vincent ^a   Yanofsky, Charles ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PEPTIDE; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHANASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOP CODON; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031056726     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.5.1774-1779.1997     Document Type: Article

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