tRNA imbalance promotes -1 frameshifting via near-cognate decoding

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 727-736

  O'Connor, Michael ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding; Frameshifting; Translation; tRNA imbalance

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODING; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MYCOPLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 0032546761     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1832     Document Type: Article

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