The positive relationship between codon usage bias and translation initiation AUG context in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 633-637

  Miyasaka, Hitoshi ^a  

^a KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AUG context; Codon usage; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; CODON USAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; LINEAR MODELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033564861     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19990615)15:8<633::AID-YEA407>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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