Amber (UAG) suppressors affected in UGA/UAA-specific polypeptide release factor 2 of bacteria: Genetic prediction of initial binding to ribosome preceding stop codon recognition

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 253-266

  Yoshimura, Kuniyasu ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a   Nakamura, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STOP CODON;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033040888     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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