Efficient in vitro translational termination in Escherichia coli is constrained by the orientations of the release factor, stop signal and Peptidyl-tRNA within the termination complex

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 857-866

  McCaughan, Kim K ^a   Poole, Elizabeth S ^a   Pel, Herman J ^a   Mansell, John B ^a   Mannering, Sally A ^a   Tate, Warren P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assay; Decoding; Initiation complex; mRNA; Protein synthesis; Ribosome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031848912     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.7.857     Document Type: Article

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