High level, context dependent misincorporation of lysine for arginine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae a1 homeodomain expressed in Escherichia coli

Protein Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 500-503

  Forman, Michael D ^a   Stack, Robert F ^a   Masters, Paul S ^a   Hauer, Charles R ^a   Baxter, Susan M ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AGA; Low use codons; Mass spectroscopy; Mistranslation; NMR spectroscopy; Protein heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031938042     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070231     Document Type: Article

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