Mutational study reveals that tertiary interactions are conserved in ribosomal frameshifting pseudoknots of two luteoviruses

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1157-1165

  Kim, Yang Gyun ^a   Maas, Stefan ^a   Wang, Stephanie C ^a   Rich, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

In vitro translation; Plant virus; PLRV; RNA structure; Slippery sequence; Structure based

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION SITE; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOP CODON; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS MUTANT;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LUTEOVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0033860774     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200000510     Document Type: Article

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