UGA read-through artifacts - When popular gene expression systems need a pATCH

BioTechniques

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 789-794

  MacBeath, Gavin ^a   Kast, Peter ^a,b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORISMATE MUTASE; DNA; HISTIDINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031899184     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/98245st02     Document Type: Article

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