Indirect regulation of translational termination efficiency at highly expressed genes and recoding sites by the factor recycling function of Escherichia coli release factor RF3

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 727-732

  Crawford, Debbie Jane G ^a   Ito, Koichi ^b   Nakamura, Yoshikazu ^b   Tate, Warren P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Recoding; Release factors; RF3; Ribosome; Translational termination

Indexed keywords

TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033081079     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.3.727     Document Type: Article

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