Computer analyses of complete genomes suggest that some archaebacteria employ both eukaryotic and eubacterial mechanisms in translation initiation

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 79-83

  Saito, Rintaro ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaebacteria; ATG triplets; Negative selection; Start codon; Untranslated region

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBACTERIUM; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; START CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CODON, INITIATOR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032881563     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00254-1     Document Type: Article

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