Structural probing and mutagenic analysis of the stem-loop required for Escherichia coli dnaX ribosomal frameshifting: Programmed efficiency of 50%

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-60

  Larsen, Bente ^a   Gesteland, Raymond F ^a,b   Atkins, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

dnaX; Frameshifting; Probing; Recoding; Stem loop structure

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031559590     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1162     Document Type: Article

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