How protein reads the stop codon and terminates translation

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 265-278

  Nakamura, Yoshikazu ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTICODON; BACTERIA; CODON, TERMINATOR; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; RIBOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031901175     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00191.x     Document Type: Review

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